Success Academy's AP exam numbers prove it: Charter schools are where...

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54% : In contrast, only about 51% of city traditional public school students who took an AP exam in 2022 passed -- and that includes all the whizzes at Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech, and Bronx Science, along with other selective high schools, which means the rate for regular high schools is wretched.
53% : Data released last month shows the stark reality: Kids who attend charter schools are thriving while their underserved peers in city-run schools wither, as the charter kids scored seven points higher on the English proficiency exam and 13 points higher on the math exam for grades 3-8.
52% : It's a shining glimpse of what's possible when people actually committed to educating kids (not to kowtowing to teachers' unions) are in charge of a school system.
50% : And Success is now a system in its own right, operating 53 schools and educating 20,000 kids despite the establishment's hostility to charters and the state's cap on charter schools.
49% : As state officials keep lowering standards and weakening graduation requirements for regular public schools (and doing their best to hide the evidence of failure), charter public schools like Success are bursting with more high-achieving students than they have the space for.

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