{"id":26078,"date":"2025-11-02T19:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26078\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:25:13","slug":"nyc-marathon-big-hit-for-success-academy-charters-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26078\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Marathon big hit for Success Academy charters — here’s why"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City Marathon<\/a> has been a wild success for the Big Apple\u2019s largest charter-school network.<\/p>\n

More than 50 educators and other employees at Success Academy are running in the marathon \u2014 including founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz <\/a>\u2014 an effort that will raise up to $1 million from pledges to support its programs.<\/p>\n

The charter network\u2019s runners even trained together for the marathon.<\/p>\n

Runners make their way across the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge during the New York City Marathon on Sunday. AP<\/p>\n

The New York City Marathon<\/a> has been a wild success for the Big Apple\u2019s largest charter-school network.<\/p>\n

More than 50 educators and other employees at Success Academy are running in the marathon \u2014 including founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz \u2014 an effort that will raise up to $1 million from pledges to support its programs.<\/p>\n

The charter network\u2019s runners even trained together for the marathon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEducation is an endurance sport,\u201d Moskowitz said before the grueling 26.2 miles trek through the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

Moskowitz, 61, first ran in the city\u2019s marathon last year.<\/p>\n

Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy, is running with other educators and employees of the charter-school network as part of an effort that will raise up to $1 million from pledges to support its programs. John Kenny<\/p>\n

Nick Jaspers, head of Success\u2019 history department, is the team captain.<\/p>\n

Moskowitz\u2019 daughter, Hannah, a Success Academy alumna and current student at the University of Pennsylvania, headed back to Gotham to run with the team as well.<\/p>\n

Each of the 53 runners was expected to raise at least $3,000 in pledges.<\/p>\n

Moskowitz, who has a cadre of well-heeled donors, said she will make up the difference if any of the runners fall short of the $3,000 goal.<\/p>\n

The money will be used to help more students afford to take college courses while still at Success.<\/p>\n

Last year, 300 students participated in it\u2019s college access program.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation is an endurance sport,\u201d Moskowitz said before the grueling 26.2 miles trek through the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

The 59-school network has among the highest-scoring students <\/a>on the state\u2019s standardized math and English exams.<\/p>\n

Pass rates for students at the charter network in grades 3-7 were nearly double those of their traditional-public-school counterparts.<\/p>\n

Success boasted that 92.5% of its 9,280 students in those grades passed the 2025 English Language Arts exam while 96.2% proved they were proficient in math.<\/p>\n

Moskowitz, 61, first ran in the city\u2019s marathon last year. Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation is an endurance sport,\u201d Moskowitz said before the grueling 26.2 miles trek through the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

Moskowitz, 61, first ran in the city\u2019s marathon last year.<\/p>\n

Nick Jaspers, head of Success\u2019 history department, is the team captain.<\/p>\n

Success Academy Eva Moskowitz speaks to new teachers in August. MoskowitzEva\/Twitter<\/p>\n

Moskowitz\u2019 daughter, Hannah, a Success Academy alumna and current student at the University of Pennsylvania, headed back to Gotham to run with the team as well.<\/p>\n

Each of the 53 runners was expected to raise at least $3,000 in pledges.<\/p>\n

Moskowitz, who has a cadre of well-heeled donors, said she will make up the difference if any of the runners fall short of the $3,000 goal.<\/p>\n

Each of the 53 runners was expected to raise at least $3,000 in pledges. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The money will be used to help more students afford to take college courses while still at Success.<\/p>\n

Last year, 300 students participated in it\u2019s college access program.<\/p>\n

The 59-school network has among the highest-scoring students <\/a>on the state\u2019s standardized math and English exams.<\/p>\n

Pass rates for students at the charter network in grades 3-7 were nearly double those of their traditional-public-school counterparts.<\/p>\n

Success boasted that 92.5% of its 9,280 students in those grades passed the 2025 English Language Arts exam while 96.2% proved they were proficient in math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Marathon has been a wild success for the Big Apple\u2019s largest charter-school network. More…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6602,16551,57,9,2790,56,63,65,64,9955,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-26078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-charter-schools","9":"tag-eva-moskowitz","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city-marathon","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-success-academy","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}