NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio buried the hatchet with charter school operator Success Academy, but the city council’s Education Committee wants to dig it back up.

De Blasio and Eva Moskowitz, CEO of Success Academy charter schools, recently came to an agreement about locating three Success Academy charter schools after the mayor revoked co-location agreements for the schools that were previously approved by the Bloomberg administration.

Charter co-locations with traditional public schools are a necessity in New York City because of the sky-high real estate market. The new agreement allows Success Academy schools to take over vacated Catholic school buildings next school year, with the city paying for the lease, according to media reports.

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But NYC’s Education Committee on Monday announced plans to hold an “oversight hearing” on “charter school management and accountability” May 6, the New York Post reports.

Daniel Dromm, a former United Federation of Teachers union member, is taking issue with Moskowitz’s decision to take Success Academy students to Albany to advocate for charter schools during the kerfuffle over the co-locations. Moskowitz has defended the field trip as a valuable lesson in civics, and reportedly required teachers to conduct lessons on the bus ride, according to the Post.

“I am deeply concerned about the legality of a school leader closing schools for entirely political purposes,” Dromm said, the news site reports. “No educator should be allowed to use children as pawns for their political agenda.”

That’s certainly an ironic statement, considering that the UFT and its sister unions around the country use students to lobby on their behalf every year. They encourage student walkouts and protests when the kids are protesting on behalf of the teachers and their unions.

But then they protest to protect their quality charter schools from the whims of union-owned politicians, that’s somehow wrong.

Moskowitz has repeatedly commended de Blasio since the two came to the agreement about the co-locations, and the mayor has backed off his antagonistic attitude toward the city’s charter schools since state lawmakers added protections for charters to the state budget, the Post reports.

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Regardless, Dromm seems determined to revive the witch hunt on the city’s charter schools, and he appears to be looking for any feasible reason to crack down on the UFT’s main competition for students.

“I am also troubled by reports of the Success Academy paying administrators extraordinary salaries,” Dromm said, according to the Post. “I also intend to use my oversight powers to investigate Moskowitz’s extensive marketing campaign costing millions of dollars.”

Dromm and his committee should really be thanking Moskowitz for providing a few good schools for students in the city. But they never will, because they serve the unions, regardless of how that affects children. That’s the current state of education in New York City, and we doubt it will get much better with the current mayor and his cronies in charge.