SUNY approves 17 new charter schools in NYC, mostly Success Academies
The SUNY Board of Trustees’ Charter Schools Committee on Wednesday approved resolutions to establish 17 new charter schools in New York City — 14 by Success Academy Charter Schools and three by Achievement First Bushwick. Many of the schools will be located in Brooklyn.
The city, not the state, needs to find space for the charter schools. If additional room can’t be carved out of existing public school buildings, the city may have to lay out millions of dollars to rent space.
In Brooklyn, charter schools were approved for districts 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, and 23, but their final locations can’t be guaranteed.
Parents in Brooklyn’s District 15 filed an unsuccessful lawsuit in 2012 seeking to block a Success Academy school from opening in a Cobble Hill school building at 184 Baltic St., after the school had received approval to locate in another district.