Success Academy Tax Documents: Moskowitz Can Afford the Rent
Since 2006, Eva Moskowitz has been running a small charter empire that has at least $50 million in assets and the support of hedge fund millionaires. Why is it, then, that her Success Academies have never paid a dime in rent for the public school space occupied by her charter schools?
Recently-elected New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to put an end to the rent-free usage of public school space by charter schools.
Moskowitz’s response?
She closed her 22 schools on October 8, 2013, so that her students could “volunteer” to protest.
Public schools do not close in order to have public school students engage in protests– and this protest coincided with the political agenda of Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota, who just happened to attend.
Moskowitz is playing both sides of the public-private hybrid that is the Success Academy charter school. Her schools are “public” when it benefits her schools to be so, and they are “privately managed charters” when that is title is convenient (as in her closing school in order to have her students “protest” in favor of a mayoral candidate).
Not only does Moskowitz believe that she has a right to squat rent-free in the very