Success Academy: We’re diverse

Charter-schools operator Success Academy said Wednesday that desegregating schools will come from providing better educational opportunities, not requirements from the city.

While Department of Education desegregation proposals continue to roil city schools, Success is touting its “voluntary diversity.”

Its schools in or near diverse communities are organically becoming racially and ethnically representative, the charter network said.

Twenty-three percent of Success students will learn in diverse schools this upcoming year, its officials said.

Nine of Success’s 47 schools have at least three races or ethnicities each making up 10 percent of more of the student population, the network said.

“If the mayor wants to make integration a priority, he should support charter schools and help them grow, instead of fighting us at every turn,” said Success founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz (right).

City Schools Chancellor han cell or Rich-Richa rd Carranza has issued issued a series of proposals aimeded at uprooting racial segregationon in public schools.

Success Academymy denies accusations thatthat it prunes problematic matic students to bolster ster stats and fails to adequately serve spepecial-ed kids.