Teachers union officials filed a lawsuit this week to block Success Academy, New York City’s largest charter network, from handing one of its charters to CEO Eva Moskowitz’s husband.
Eric Grannis, Moskowitz’s spouse, is planning to use that charter to open Strive Charter School, which would offer families year-round programming and a longer school day. It is slated to open this fall in the South Bronx.
But city and state teachers unions contend in a lawsuit filed Monday that the arrangement runs afoul of state law because it effectively creates a new charter school, violating the state’s cap on the number of charters that can operate, which has already been reached. The suit also names the State University of New York, which oversees Success Academy and ultimately approved the arrangement between Success and Strive in January…