My Story

 

As founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, the largest and best-performing public charter school network in New York City, I have made it my mission to challenge the conventional wisdom that children from low-income, minority neighborhoods cannot achieve at the highest academic levels.

 
 

Interview with Charlie Rose

 

Success Academy Virtual Schools

Explore our approach to elementary, middle, and high school.

 
 

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Love this beautiful book display in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth! #InsideSuccess
"The idea of going into public education lit a spark that I didn't entirely know I had." - Javeria Khan, Managing Director of Schooling at @successacademy
From the beginning, we’ve prioritized teachers teaching out to parents regularly to share scholars’ achievements — and funny moments! Love this. #InsideSuccess #Regram @ms_knight13
On the same page as this SA Harlem 6 artist... the #NYC neighborhood where I've lived most of my life AND the original home of @successacademy. #Harlem 💙
As a child, I loved pretending to teach. I’d instruct my stuffed animals in addition and subtraction or read from picture books. I eventually managed to convince a few children join but had to reprimand them for their lack of effort. They complained that I was too strict and, sadly, abandoned their studies. My stuffed animals stoically persisted! #ThrowbackThursday
The most important lesson of #Monopoly isn't how well kids play -- it's in the social skills, patience, and persistence learned through playing with one another.
Our first graduates paved the way and added tremendously to our efforts to continually improve the high school. Forever grateful to all of our founding scholars (and families!) and delighted to celebrate them at our alumni event!
Delighted to welcome President David Harris from @unioncollege #InsideSuccess! Thank you for visiting our high school.
"Math is one of my favorite subjects. In Math Workshop, we're learning how to decompose hard numbers using rows and columns. Basically, you take big numbers and break them down into friendlier numbers so you can easily do equations." - Keagan, 4th grade scholar at @sawilliamsburg #MathEducation #InsideSuccess