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The view inside your school building today
This is a historic day. So far I’ve seen crowds of Brooklyn residents hunting in vain for newspapers to commemorate the day; I’ve seen a sidewalk chalk drawing of an American flag; I’ve seen campaign...
View ArticleSchool with substandard scores gets shorter charter renewal
A Brooklyn charter school with a floundering English-language learner program and poor English marks had its charter renewed, but only on a probationary basis. State charter authorizers who reviewed...
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Struggling with special education, charter schools join together
Chancellor Dennis Walcott discusses special education in charter schools at the kick-off conference for a new collaborative. As the director of special education at the DREAM Charter School, Jacqueline...
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Small school resists meeting the fate of a larger one it replaced
Ama Willock urges DOE officials not to close her son's school, Middle School for the Arts in Crown Heights As Mayor Michael Bloomberg touted the success of the small schools opened during his tenure in...
View ArticleSweating the big and small stuff at Achievement First’s P.D. day
When principals and coaches at Achievement First charter schools conducted observations this fall, they found that many teachers fell short when using a classroom technique called “checks for...
View ArticleSome city schools look for support to boost teacher leadership
For many of the city’s strongest teachers, moving up professionally means moving out of the classroom and on to jobs in school management, consulting, policy, or academia. That was the conclusion of a...
View ArticleIn Manhattan conference room, students get networking workout
College and career readiness isn’t just about what students know — it’s about whom they know, too. That’s the philosophy behind the Opportunity Network, a 10-year-old nonprofit organization that aims...
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City charter networks celebrate sending first seniors to college
As Lamont Sadler moonwalked up to the microphone, his classmates clapped and cheered for their senior class president. “When I say hee hee, you say ow!” Sadler yelled to the auditorium full of...
View ArticleBroker Like a Champion
After more than seven years working in politics, I am leaving my job, moving to Brooklyn and starting a career as an educator. Inspired by the important relationships I developed while participating in...
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In remote Brooklyn areas, more charters means more decisions
When Emily Caton decided she wanted to send her daughter to a charter school, she navigated to the New York City Charter Center website, typed in her Brownsville zip code, and watched a stream of...
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Achievement First parents are among network’s new teachers
Louise Eason, who has a son at Achievement First Bushwick Middle School, was just hired as a teacher at Achievement First Apollo this year. Two new teachers at Achievement First’s schools have a line...
View ArticleEight charter schools approved for New York City
SUNY Charter Schools Institute, one of two bodies that can authorize charter schools in New York State, has signed off on eight more schools to open in New York City next year. Six of the schools, in...
View ArticleCharter school CEOs head to New York for advice on running networks
New York City would not seem the ideal place at the moment for charter school networks to talk expansion. Last week, the mayor nixed plans for three charter schools to move into public buildings, and...
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Years after Common Core’s arrival, reading overhauls continue at top charter...
After Nilda Solomon’s seventh-grade literature class silently read a soldier’s account of the capture of John Wilkes Booth and his henchman, she told her students to discuss. “Let me hear your deep...
View ArticleCity’s charter-school oversight again questioned by Regents, who raise...
Updated — After a month-long battle over charter-school oversight, the state found common ground with the city’s education department this January. The consensus didn’t last long. A Board of Regents...
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Suspensions at city charter schools far outpace those at district schools,...
Updated — New York City charter schools suspended students at almost three times the rate of traditional public schools during the 2011-12 school year, according to a Chalkbeat analysis, though some...
View ArticleAs charter students head to college, schools ask, how’d we do?
After spending nearly half his life at an Achievement First charter school in Brooklyn, Marquis Wilson was prepared to write college essays and was diligent about showing up to class at SUNY Purchase....
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'No excuses' no more? Charter schools rethink discipline after focus on tough...
PHOTO: Stephanie SnyderA fourth-grade student does test-prep in his English class at Brownsville Ascend Lower Charter School in Brooklyn. A few years ago, if a student arrived at an Ascend elementary...
View ArticleFirst Person: 'I was the kid who didn't speak English'
I am a Latina. I am proud of that identity. But that identity wasn’t affirmed by anyone outside my family until I was in college. I teach because I want to change that for kids. My mom is Mexican, my...
View ArticleHundreds of education leaders from charter schools, nonprofits denounce...
Leaders of several hundred education nonprofits, charter school networks, and other education groups have signed onto an open letter expressing “unequivocal disagreement” with the travel ban President...
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