New York Post

Charters blast Blas on scores

- Selim Algar

Riding high on their latest batch of superior test scores, Success Academy charter-school officials took dead aim at Mayor de Blasio Thursday for “normalizin­g” the city’s improved but still abysmal state exam results released this week.

At a press conference, Success execs ripped de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña for lauding minor hikes among district students last year while 179,000 kids flunked English and 193,000 failed math.

“I think it’s a crime,” company founder Eva Moskowitz said of the state of district schools. “I think it’s a crime that our society allows this to happen.”

Success Academy saw 95 percent of kids scoring at proficient levels in math and 84 percent in English.

District students posted a 38 percent proficienc­y rate in math and 41 percent in English.

Two-thirds of black and Hispanic kids failed English in 26 of the 32 city districts, while twothirds failed math in 30 of the 32 districts, according to state figures released this week.

Moskowitz blistered de Blasio and Fariña for “cracking open champagne” after those meager figures ticked up from 2016.

“We are stealing possibilit­y from children,” Moskowitz said. “En masse; 200,000 kids who cannot read or do basic math. Kids of color. The monumental scale of the failure despite $31 billion a year in resources, the corruptnes­s of it, the unfairness of it, the corrosiven­ess of it to the fabric of our society gets a ho-hum response.”

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