StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter school organization that launched with a bang a year ago and then stalled, has a new executive director: Jenny Sedlis, who helped former NYC Council Member Eva
Moskowitz build Success Academy Charter Schools.
Jenny Sedlis, who helped former City Council Member Eva
Moskowitz build Success Academy Charter Schools, will start in September as the new executive director, the group plans to announce Friday.
Not exact matches
The
Success Academy schools, headed by Founder and Chief Executive Officer Eva
Moskowitz, had sought to bring Harlem 4, a middle school of grades 5 to 8, into the
building.
But in 2011, Fariña indirectly pitted herself against
Moskowitz in a 2011 fight for school space: after a
Success Academy was slated to move into a Cobble Hill school
building, Fariña helped draw up a competing proposal to create an early - childhood education center in the same location.
The group, which included Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, congressional candidate the Rev. Michael Walrond and state NAACP President Hazel Dukes, criticized
Moskowitz's plans to sue to allow the co-location to go forward at P.S. 811, which already shares space at 118th Street and Lenox Avenue
building with P.S. 149 and
Success Academy Harlem 1.
McIntosh said the performing arts school could lose a band room, dance studio and a multi-purpose drama room when the Eva
Moskowitz - run Harlem
Success Academy moves two middle school grades into the
building Wadleigh already shares with Frederick Douglass Academy II and an Alternative Learning Center.
Moskowitz, who has pledged to
build out the
Success network to 100 schools, is likely to continue on the warpath against de Blasio, accusing him of depriving poor and minority students of educational opportunities, as she will do at a march over the Brooklyn Bridge in a few weeks.
But the three schools, part of the
Success Academy network operated by C.E.O. Eva
Moskowitz, would not necessarily be in the
buildings where they were originally sited.
«Indeed, these changes appear to be part of a sustained pattern to privilege Eva
Moskowitz's
Success Academy schools with space and resources at the expense of the traditional public schools with which they share
buildings,» de Blasio wrote.
IN OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYOR, EVA
MOSKOWITZ CALLS FOR CITY TO USE UNDER - UTILIZED
BUILDINGS FOR
SUCCESS ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLS City has only 13 working days left to make a proposal that could be approved in January New York, NY -LSB-...]
The
Success Academy Charter School, run by former City Councilwoman Eva
Moskowitz, plans to open inside the
building at 10 - 45 Nameoke St. for the 2016 - 2017 school year, the DOE said.
A group of parents with children in schools co-located with
Success Academy charters is calling on the New York State Education Department to temporarily halt all construction work in public school
buildings by
Success Academy Charters chief Eva
Moskowitz.
During the past two years, the DOE gave
Moskowitz's controversial chain,
Success Academy, rent - free space in city school
buildings to open 14 new co-location sites.
The parents claim in their petition to the state that
Moskowitz's actions in the school
building are «part of a pattern with
Success Academy in New York City: a belief that existing rules and regulations don't apply to them.»
Moskowitz, noting that
Success charters are much safer than district schools, states that creating a safe learning environment, instilling discipline and values, and
building social and emotional skills are part of the
Success model.
«Time and time again,» de Blasio claimed, «we've seen a tale of two cities, with resources lavished on [
Moskowitz's]
Success Academy while traditional public schools in the same
building lacked the most basic necessities.»
But in 2011, Fariña indirectly pitted herself against
Moskowitz in a 2011 fight for school space: after a
Success Academy was slated to move into a Cobble Hill school
building, Fariña helped draw up a competing proposal to create an early - childhood education center in the same location.
Moskowitz, who has pledged to
build out the
Success network to 100 schools, is likely to continue on the warpath against de Blasio, accusing him of depriving poor and minority students of educational opportunities, as she will do at a march over the Brooklyn Bridge in a few weeks.