Teachers union challenge to new NYC Success Academy charter schools tossed

[Kamaji]

Teachers union challenge to new NYC Success Academy charter schools tossed

By Selim Algar   
August 11, 2023

A Manhattan judge tossed an 11th-hour bid by the city’s powerful teachers union to block charter school network Success Academy from launching classes in two buildings on Monday.

The United Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit arguing that the city’s new class-size regulations prohibited the network from offering classes in two public buildings in Queens and Brooklyn.

But Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank dismissed the legal gambit Friday, officially allowing Success Academy to open its doors to hundreds of anxious schoolchildren and their parents next week.

The high-achieving network will now be allowed to greet students at PS 225 in Far Rockaway and the K495 high school complex in Sheepshead Bay.

Frank had previously eased a June 30 temporary restraining order that had barred Success Academy from preparing spaces in both schools for the new school year.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/11/uft-loses-challenge-to-new-success-academy-schools-in-nyc/

[Kamaji]

Good!  Now let's hope that ruling holds up on appeal.

[PeteS in CA]

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