After Clash With NYC Mayor, Charter Group Hopes to Expand

Success Academy, the New York City charter-school network that beat back an effort by Mayor Bill de Blasio to deny city-owned space to three of its schools, will seek to vastly expand its reach by opening 14 more schools in the next two years, according to The New York Times.

If successful, the effort would give the nonprofit charter group 46 schools serving more than 15,000 students. A Success spokesman said the organization, led by Eva Moskowitz, a former city council member, is seeing “considerable demand” from families in communities with large disparities in academic achievement among racial and ethnic groups.

Mr. de Blasio has sought to roll back former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s policy of giving charters free use of public-school buildings, and in February denied the perk to three planned Success schools. He reversed the decision after protests by charter supporters, and in April state leaders approved broad protections for the publicly funded but usually nonprofit-run schools, requiring New York City to offer them space or rent subsidies.