Success Academy Sues New York State For Suppressing AP Test Scores
‘Government-created information blockade’ blocks families, U.S. News from access
The Success Academy charter school network is suing the New York education commissioner, Betty Rosa, accusing her of blocking the release of AP test score results as part of what the lawsuit calls “a government-created information blockade.”
The suit says Rosa, at the behest of the teachers’ union, blocked the College Board from releasing AP test data to U.S. News & World Report for use in its high school rankings. That effectively impeded Success’s ability to communicate—a violation of First Amendment free expression rights, the suit says.
“Fewer than 25 percent of high school students nationally pass at least one AP examination by the time they graduate. By contrast, 95 percent of Success Academy’s 2026 graduating class passed three or more AP examinations, 79 percent passed five or more, and 60 percent passed seven or more,” the lawsuit says. “Those results are among the most objective and compelling evidence of the rigor of Success Academy’s high-school program and of its students’ readiness for college.”
