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Why are Success Academy Charter Schools so strict?

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I read Moskowitz's 2012 book (coauthored with Arin Lavinia), Mission Possible: How the Secrets of the Success Academies Can Work in Any School. So what's going on? read more

We believe in rules because children learn best when the learning environment is safe and orderly. Because the city’s district schools have such severe disciplinary problems, the mere existence of “rules” has become controversial. read more

Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy charter schools. Credit Jake Naughton for The New York Times. Carolyn Farnham, 24, the teacher, asked her students how they felt about the start of test preparations. read more

Success Academy Charter Schools, originally Harlem Success Academy, is a charter school operator in New York City. Eva Moskowitz, a former city council member for the Upper East Side, is its founder. According to the New York Post, Success Academy had 17,000 applicants for 3,000 available seats, which resulted in a wait list of more than 10,000 families for the 2017-2018 school year. read more

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