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IF YOU thought you’d heard the loudest skirmishes between charter-school leader Eva Moskowitz and her nemesis, Mayor de Blasio, adjust the volume on your TV set.
The hard-charging Moskowitz is leading a massive expansion of her Suc- - cess Academy charter schools. With thee approval to open six new branches in August, Moskowitz is on track to run a whopping 46 schools serving 12,000 cityty kids by the end of 2015.
Coming off a year in which Moskowitz beat back a de Blasio push to shutter one of her finest schools, that growth will give her network a powerful permanent presence in the five boroughs, along with a fierce pro-charter parent army to fend off City Hall’s attempts to weaken the movement.
On new Common Core tests, English and math scores for the schools’ predominantly low-income, black and d Latino students has been on par with the best suburban schools — resetting expectations for what city kids can achieve.
De Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña see these charters as more a threat than an inspiration. Moskowitz, dogged as ever, is intent on molding shining models for next-generation public education.