Locals ask state for more charter schools: [1]

There are only 155 spots for the inaugural class of Harlem Success Academy, the new charter school slated to open doors this fall, yet there were 440 applications to get in.

In keeping with state requirements, the school held a lottery for the slots. Parents gathered at Salem Methodist United Church last Wednesday to hear the results. Needless to say, many left disappointed.

"When you look a parent in they eye and say 'there is no room'... they look at you as though you are nuts and it is nuts," Eva Moskowitz, the executive director of Harlem Success Charter School, stated emphatically.

Moskowitz, the former city council representative and chair of the education committee, together with schools chancellor...