SUNY opens probe into charter school over ‘forced out’ students
The State University Charter School Institute has opened a probe into whether a Success Academy charter school in Brooklyn improperly used its disciplinary policy to force out struggling students, The Post has learned.
SUNY — which licenses charter schools — plans to demand more information from the high-performing Success Academy and other charter-school operators about their disciplinary and suspension policies before signing off on new charter applications or renewals.
SUNY officials are responding to a bombshell “Got to Go” list of troubled students kept by Candido Brown, who recently stepped down as principal of Success Academy in Fort Greene.
“Our focus is on making sure that suspensions and discipline are not being used improperly to encourage students to dis-enroll,” institute Director Susan Miller Barker said in a letter to Success Academy chairman Samuel Cole.
Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz said she is confident SUNY will find that Success Academy acted “quickly and decisively” at the Fort Greene school.SUNY opens probe into charter school over ‘forced out’ students | New York Post: