In editorial space usually reserved for dispatches about A-list cocktail parties and Hamptons polo matches, New York Magazine this week featured some moms and dads from the inner city who waited with bated breath last week to learn whether or not they had won a spot in the Harlem Success Academy Charter School.

If these people only knew how hard special interests like the teachers unions worked in the last week to try to beat their hopes and dreams for their children to a pulp... In this morning's N.Y. Post, Brighter Choice Charter Schools' Tom Carroll explains the drama that unfolded as the union bosses tried to ram their anti-reform effort through the Legislature.

The Daily News this morning notes that because the special interest-dominated political process took several years to unfold, it means the soonest new public charter schools could open in New York would be the fall of 2008.

Meanwhile, the News' Daily Politics blog wonders whether it was just a coincidence that the goofy, anti-quality rule requiring forced unionization of teachers if a school has more than 250 students in its second year seems singularly aimed at former NYC Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz. Some background here from the other day.