WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: .......------------------------....... https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jNr8!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b458bf1-4b83-450a-886f-e430379381c4_1536x1024.jpeg NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 28: Parents, schoolchildren, and education activists rally during an event supporting public charter schools. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) A recent New York Times article expresses “worry” about “the role that money plays in access to a quality education in New York.” And yet according to data obtained by the Free Beacon’s Ira Stoll, more than half of the best 100 public schools in New York City as measured by state math and English test scores are charter schools, “many of them located in poor neighborhoods and serving students that the city describes as economically disadvantaged.” Stoll reports: City and state websites offer report cards on individual schools but make it hard to sort schools by test scores or compile a list, perhaps because the results are embarrassing to the government-run schools. So no one—until now—has reported that charters make up 59 of 100 top math schools and 53 of the 100 top schools for English language arts in New York City, according to 2025 state tests. Many of those schools are in the Bronx or Harlem or in parts of Brooklyn that are not Park Slope. The Times report does mention that “In recent years, some middle-class parents have begun to consider charter schools, which are publicly funded, enroll 150,000 students and traditionally enroll poorer families,” but that’s low down in the article, after all the talk about “worry” and a quote from someone about “the growing gulf between not even just the haves and have-nots, but the ultra, ultra wealthy, and everyone else” and about how “At a certain point, it’s like education is a luxury good.” It’s as if the Times’s progressive editors can’t bear to acknowledge that many charter school students are getting excellent educations. Such an acknowledgement might undermine the campaign to stoke anxiety about the “income gap” and therefore to justify higher taxes on the rich, voting for Zohran Mamdani—the complete left-wing agenda. Rather than reporting on the "worry," why not provide readers with the factual information needed to determine whether the worry is justified or unwarranted? If the Times won’t do it, we will. The top 100 rankings can be viewed in full below. READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE: Charter Schools Dominate New York City’s Top 100 Public Schools by Math and English Test Scores