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School choice is on the rise

Public schools compete for students as more parents opt out

The CEO of a charter school network based in New York City, Success Academy, argued that the system was failing students shortly after New York released its report card for grades 3–8.

"The children are fine. It is the system that is failing to deliver with incredible consequences," Eva Moskowitz said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Moskowitz, a Democrat, called education a bipartisan issue. Her comments came after New York State Education Department’s newly released test score data for grades 3–8, stating that the assessment results showed "meaningful signs of improvement."

The state’s report card shows that 57% of 3-8 graderswere deemed proficient in math. Regarding English (or language arts), 53% were deemed proficient.

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The CEO of a charter school network based in New York City, Success Academy, argued that the system was failing students shortly after New York released its report card for grades 3–8. (Getty)

When asked what she meant by saying "the system is failing," Moskowitz told Fox News Digital that it’s "complex," involving "politicians, unions and bureaucracies."

"These failing schools go on year after year after year, and the way it works in most urban areas or rural areas, for that matter, people are zoned for schools. And if you live on this side of the tracks, you are zoned for one set of schools, and if you live somewhere else, you have access to better schools," Moskowitz said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the New York State Education Department for comment. 

Most states restrict parents to schools within their ZIP code or the school district that presides over their residential area, but charter schools allow parents the option to send their kids to a different school.

Moskowitz, the lead architect of a network of charter schools, previously faced pushback for seeking co-locations of the schools from the United Federation of Teachers as they sought to expand their services to more students. When charter schoolsare located near public schools, they compete for per-pupil funding as parents are allowed to opt out of sending their children to the neighborhood public school.