Eva Moskowitz sued the city of New York to take its money to tun pre-schools without city supervision. The city insisted that if she wanted the money, she would have to sign the same contract as all other providers, including other charters. She lost in the State Supreme Court. She appealed and just won in the state appellate court.
Eva initially accepted $720,000 in city funds but refused to sign the contract, saying the city had no authority over charter schools. She canceled her pre-K program rather than accept city oversight.
The State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia sided with Mayor de Blasio.
The appellate court overruled the lower court decision. Eva is gloating. She won. She gets public money without accountability.
It has not yet appeared in newspapers, so all I can give you is a link to the court decision.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Will this decision be appealed to a higher court or is this the end of the road?
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Appellate court is highest court in NY
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Is the Appellate Court the same as The Court of Appeals?
https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/
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The names of NY’s courts are confusing. This decision is from the Appellate Division, Third Dept., which is essentially the mid level court. This can be appealed to our highest court, the NY Court of Appeals. Hopefully this appeal will happen and hopefully the NY Court of Appeals will reverse this ill advised decision.
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I stand corrected , I thought the the article was referring to the Court of Appeals . Rather than the Appellate division of the Supreme court..
OOPS
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This country is at a new low.
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Limbo is the game.
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Eva is doing the lim”below” and may she go to hell… guess that’s as low as you can get!!
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Let’s send Eva to The ancient Egyptian hell where souls like hers are fed to a crocodile god that poops them out into the Egyptian hell.
Or how about the Norse (Viking) hell where you get hit in the head with the sharp end of an axe every since day forever?
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Eminent good sense in this decision.
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In what way was there supposedly “good sense in this decision”? Please explain.
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Ignore eva bot BTJ. It’s a waste of oxygen to reply to them.
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Looks like the Pre-K contract was written in a manner that invited this lawsuit, too specific in what was be “inspected,” down to the minute on some items. That specificity cramped the “creativity” of the EVA team. The case was won on the difference between inspection of the program and regulation of the program. I imagine the limitation on computer devices and TV was more bothersome than the field trip limitations. Having a copy of the contract would help us understand the legal moves. Overall NY law seems to favor unregulated charter schools.
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…not fair to all who answer to their district, their city school board, their county board, their state department of education, and their federal department of education…all these entities are there to protect our students and further what is best for our students…why would she be different ? …Ann Ryand – go home…
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Ayan Rand is home – roasting in Dante’s 4th, 8th circles and freezing in the 9th circle of Hell for eternity buried deep within the ice.
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So does this mean that other charter school can follow her model? Is this the last step.or can the city appeal this appeal? Please help… I really need answers. THANKS!
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To me, the most disgusting part of this is that not one reporter has asked Eva Moskowitz straight out why she is even bringing this lawsuit given how she attacked and undermined Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to get universal pre-k enacted. As usual, they treat her the way they treated Trump all last year. Sure she lies and exaggerates and intentionally misleads but that’s just Eva being Eva just like Trump was being Trump. Haven’t journalists learned yet how much harm is caused when you let dishonest people like Trump and Eva Moskowitz get away with some of the most outrageously deceptive statements without calling out their lies?
When Mayor de Blasio was fighting for universal pre-k, Eva Moskowitz spent untold hundreds of thousands of dollars to hold a competing rally to undermine those efforts and she justified it by stating that expanding her K-12 charters was more important than universal pre-k. If she was telling the truth about that, Ms. Moskowitz would be using every inch of extra space in her charters schools to serve students in Kindergarten through 5th grade and the LAST thing she would do was to claim she has so much extra space she might as well use it for pre-k so that the siblings of the disproportionately affluent students at SA Cobble Hill could get pre-k seats. Why would any Success Academy classroom space be used for the pre-k she insisted had little value when she has told us there are wait lists of thousands waiting for Kindergarten spots? Or is it tens of thousands of student waiting for Kindergarten spots? Or perhaps there as many students on Success Academy Kindergarten wait lists as there were people at Trump’s inauguration.
So why use any space at all for pre-k when Ms. Moskowitz made it clear that Mayor de Blasio’s push for universal pre-k had no value to her? Were those Kindergarten wait lists as exaggerated as Trump’s claims?
I won’t hold my breath knowing that the journalists who cover Eva Moskowitz never challenge her. One day she can claim that providing more charter seats for children starting in Kindergarten is far more important than de Blasio’s universal pre-k initiative. And the next she can demand that the extra space in her current charters be used for pre-k instead of serving all those students on the mythical wait lists for kindergarten. And reporters will transcribe her statements without once mentioning the hypocrisy.
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