Sentences with phrase «success academy chain»

Cuomo played a face - to - face role in brokering the April deal between the city and Eva Moskowitz, head of the Success Academy chain of charter schools, according to a newly released round of his public schedules.

But many would say the mayor made his own distaste for charters perfectly clear during the campaign, when he remarked about the head of the Success Academy chain: «There's no way in hell Eva Moskowitz should get free rent, OK?»

The candidates also blasted Eva Moskowitz, the controversial founder and director of the Harlem Success Academy chain of charter schools.

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LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

The key to Success Academy in Brooklyn, shown, and other institutions in the New York City charter chain is that «it's not only reading, writing and arithmetic.

Eva Moskowitz, CEO of Success Academy in New York City, insists her chain of charter schools has the answers.

Bloomberg said the charter school expansion would be achieved mainly by speeding up the replication of chain - style charters such as KIPP and the Success Academy network that already have a presence in the city.

Eva Moskowitz, the polarizing founder of the Success Academy charter school chain, told reporters today she would «not be entertaining» a rumored role as secretary of the Department of Education in the Trump administration.

Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side school to open in the fall of 2014, along with five other schools across the city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward with the plan.

Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is under fire from all sides for its harsh discipline policies and treatment of students with special needs.

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.

Critics have complained that Success Academy uses disciplinary tactics that weed out special - needs students and have fumed that the well - funded chain doesn't deserve free rent.

Disadvantaged children were shown to have mixed success in academy chains.

The report, «Chain Effects 2015: The impact of academy chains on low - income students», suggests new chains should not be allowed to expand until they have a «track record of success».

This comes after Eva Moskowitz, chief executive of New York charter chain Success Academy, also told TES that she would not be interested as her work in New York was «far from done».

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of the Success Academy public - charter chain and a target of de Blasio's, told me that she believes de Blasio has been blinded to alternate approaches by his ideology and by his loyalty to the teachers union.

The success or otherwise of an individual academy can be hard to separate from the performance of the academy chain to which they have been assigned and which they can not choose to leave.

The charter chain came under fire after a recent New York Times investigation revealed that administrators at one Success Academy school kept a «got to go» list of struggling students that they actively worked to push out.

Some charter school chains, such as Success Academy in New York City, boast impressively high test scores.

NEW YORK CITY On Thursday, former Success Academy parent Fatima Geidi delivered a petition she started calling on the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the charter school chain for keeping a «got to go» list of struggling students and actively working to push them out of school.

But the overall picture conforms with other researchers» findings: it's not clear how much capacity the academy chains have to hammer up results, even if the early ones were a success.

The minister for skills and enterprise told the House of Commons this afternoon he wanted to replicate success stories where the 14 to 19 technical institutions functioned well as part of academy chains.

«New chains should not be allowed to expand until they have a track record of success in driving improvement in their existing academies,» it said.

One of Class Warfare's stars, a charter school assistant principal named Jessica Reid, unexpectedly quits her job at Eva Moskowitz's Harlem Success Academy in the middle of the school year; the charter chain's rigorous demands pushed the 28 - year - old Reid, a dedicated and charismatic educator, to the brink of a nervous breakdown and divorce.

What is clear is that charter chains like Success Academy, which boast very high scores on state tests and very little tolerance for even mildly divergent behavior, are pleased since they will no longer have to bother with new teachers who have actually learned to teach and have existing teaching experience and knowledge of pedagogy.

The Vice Chair of Eva Moskowitz's infamous New York City based Success Academy Charter Schools dropped $ 1,500 on the event, thanks to donations from board members and his wife, while another donation came from a board member of the Newark, New Jersey, Team Charter School chain, which is owned by KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, a «national network» of 125 charter schools around the Country.

Petry is infamous for his relationship with Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain and his role in getting her company off the ground and supporting it through the years.

One of DFER's leading directors is Gotham Capital hedge fund's John Petry who co-founded the Harlem Success Academy Charter School chain with Eva Moskowitz.

The success of the Empiribox field trials, which has involved more than 50 primary schools nationwide — including academy chains and Academy Enterprise Trust organisations — means the enterprise behind the system will now be making it available to all primary schools in England andacademy chains and Academy Enterprise Trust organisations — means the enterprise behind the system will now be making it available to all primary schools in England andAcademy Enterprise Trust organisations — means the enterprise behind the system will now be making it available to all primary schools in England and Wales.

Over breakfast this morning, Eva Moskowitz seemed to rattle off a list of people who are skeptical of her Success Academy charter school chain — teachers union types who are suing her, the media that is scrutinizing her classrooms, the parents who are angry about suspensions or expulsions — some of whom showed up to confront her today.

Despite the rhetoric of wealthy backers (like hedge - fund billionaire Daniel Loeb, who just raised $ 35 million for the Success Academy charter chain), the charter industry has a mixed record of student achievement and a reputation tainted by a string of scandals — hardly a record that justifies the massive expansion.

Whilst increased accountability for schools and more rigorous means of ensuring that accountability have characterised academy chains it would appear that many are still searching for effective chain wide school improvement strategies and models that can ultimately lead to transformational outcomes for young people, particularly for those whose start in life too often makes educational achievement and success that much harder.

«Eva Moskowitz Defends Success Academy Charter Chain From Critics.»