Revealing Podcast About Success Academy — Part VI
Part 6 of Startup’s seven part podcast about Success Academy (available here) is titled ‘Fights.’
The first of the fights that it tells about is the fight for space to grow that Eva Moskowitz has had with Mayor de Blasio. Some charter schools have their own buildings or they pay rent for spaces though in New York City they often move into existing schools, taking a floor or two at first. This arrangement is called co-location. They play a tape of De Blasio on the campaign trail in 2013 saying “Time for Eva Moskowitz to stop having the run of the place. She has to stop being tolerated, enabled, supported.”
About a month after de Blasio became mayor at the end of 2014, a high level DOE administrator called Moskowitz to tell her that three new spaces that she had been counting on, two to open new schools and one to add new grades at an existing school, were no longer going to be available to them.
About this news, they run tape of Eva saying:
EVA: I thought I must have misheard her. I cried. I mean I was crying on the phone with her… I was like ‘Kathleen, how could you do this? This is an existing school, you’re just throwing the kids out on the street? Where are they gonna go?’
The podcast then recounts the 5 million dollar PR campaign and the rally in Albany CONTINUE READING: Revealing Podcast About Success Academy — Part VI | Gary Rubinstein's Blog