Opinion

All Bill’s children

We’re delighted to see Mayor de Blasio has finally made good on his promise to do right by all those schoolchildren whose lives he disrupted when he took away the space for the public schools they were planning to attend.

The mayor’s office announced this past weekend that the three schools left in limbo by his action — Harlem Success Academy 4, Success Academy Jamaica and Success Academy City Hall — will now open this fall in three former Catholic schools. So the charters get their space without having to colocate in other public schools. Maybe this will mean more peace for the charters.

In announcing the agreement, First Deputy Mayor Tony Shorris explained it this way: “It doesn’t matter whether a child attends a district school, a charter school or a parochial school — these are all our kids.”

If that’s true, there are a number of other steps the city should follow up with. At the top would be Mayor Bill telling his hand-picked City Council speaker to drop her anti-charter lawsuit.

Second would be for the mayor to call on Albany to lift the cap on charters. The waiting list alone in New York City speaks to this urgency.

Finally, maybe the mayor should make a visit to one of the high-performing charters and speak about what lessons they have for other public schools. It doesn’t have to be one of Eva Moskowitz’s.

There are plenty to choose from.

If the mayor truly believes “these are all our kids,” he ought to try to get to know them.