Sentences with phrase «amistad academy board»

Alex Troy served as a member of the Achievement First Board of Directors, as Chairman of the Amistad Academy Board of Directors, as President and Secretary of the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN) and as Co-founder and Treasurer of the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy (ConnCAN's sister organization).

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Let's see if I've got this right... Stefan Pryor was co-founder and board member of Amistad Academy, the «flagship» school of Achievement First, a charter school chain he helped found and on whose board he sat until he was made Commissioner of Education of the State of Connecticut in Sept. 2011.

Clearly their model — and their leadership across the board — is flawed, because in the elementary school category, the top four slots in the suspension leaderboard were held by Achievement First schools: Hartford Academy, 32.5 percent; Elm City College Prep, 26 percent; Bridgeport Achievement First, 20 percent; and Amistad Academy, 13.8 percent.

As of today, Alex Troy serves as the Chairman of the Board for Achievement First's Amistad Academy and the Elm City College Preparatory School.

Other schools that represent variations on this model are profiled by David Whitman in Sweating the Small Stuff, his exhaustive review of no - excuses schools and their practices; they include the Amistad Academy in New Haven, Connecticut, the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, and the SEED School public boarding school in Washington, D.C.

Stefan Pryor, Connecticut's Commissioner of Education and Governor Malloy's point person on education reform not only helped create the Amistad Academy but served on Achievement First's Board of Directors from 2004 through at least 2010.

Board of Directors for the Amistad Academy schools.

Now AF aims «to go after a new school design entirely,» Toll told board members gathered in a community room inside Amistad Academy Elementary School at 130 Edgewood Ave.

When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appointed Stefan Pryor as commissioner in 2011, he was lauded as a «turnaround leader» whose experience as co-founder and board president of New Haven's Amistad Academy would «help him turn the Department of Education into an agency that helps prepare our state's children for whichever path they may choose.»