Metro

Public schools ‘doing bad things to children’: Success Charter head

If Mayor de Blasio thought a leading advocate for charter schools would be silenced after reaching a deal with the city for more space, he was badly mistaken.

Charter chief Eva Moskowitz blasted the mayor as an “operative of the teachers union” and called out regular public schools for “doing bad things to children” in a blistering interview with More magazine.

“My mama-bear instinct kicks in when people try to do bad things to children,” Moskowitz said. “And the school system on a regular basis is doing bad things to children.”

The founder of the Success Academy charter network said she blocked the mayor from “acting on his hostility in the most dramatic, consequential way for children” by fighting the city’s attempt to stop her charters from “co-locating” inside public school buildings.

De Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvell shrugged off the criticisms.

“This is about our kids and whether we’re doing everything we can to give them real opportunity,” he said.

“That’s why we’re making the kind of changes that don’t just reach a lucky handful of students, but uplift everyone, regardless of what ZIP code they grew up in or what school they attend.”