First, Success Academy and its allies stage a protest in Albany for more state support.

Weeks later, Success Academy head Eva Moskowitz, whose annual salary is a reported $567,500, invites her Wall Street backers to a fundraiser at Cipriani’s that in one night rakes in more than $9 million.

This is the charter two-step. Plead poverty to get public money. Then call on your billionaire backers to donate huge wads of private cash.

If only public schools, which serve all children, could raise the funds they need as easily.

Success Academy will use the $9.3 million from its April 20 benefit at six new schools that will serve 3,000 children, according to one news report.

That amounts to $1.6 million per school or $3,100 per child — which is on top of both the public funding that will already be diverted to these schools and those charters’ rent-free building space.

Think what a district public school with 500 students could do with an additional $1.6 million. Art, music and library programs could be restored. Class sizes could be reduced. New books, math manipulatives and other supplies could be plentiful.

The Success Academy’s annual spring fundraiser is only one source of the charter network’s donations. In 2013, the network brought in $22 million in private donations in addition to $72 million in public funds.

At a time when many public schools are struggling with overcrowded buildings, bulging class sizes and a dearth of supplies, is it fair that charters awash in private cash also receive a guarantee of free building space, compliments of their biggest cheerleader, Gov. Cuomo? Remember that Success and many other charter networks of its ilk operate by different rules — serving far fewer high-needs students than public schools.

Maybe it is time for our state elected officials to acknowledge something that is becoming increasingly obvious: Charter networks like Success are not competing on a level playing field with public schools. We are creating a system of haves and have-nots that is leaving public schools, who educate all kids regardless of need, without the resources that their students require and deserve.