Sentences with phrase «success academy officials»

In court filings, Upper West Success Academy officials argued the charter school would be «placed in an under - utilized space within Brandeis, and so cause no harm to the existing schools» and that some of the classrooms allocated to the charter school are currently used to store file cabinets and extra furniture.

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Building upon the success of Arsenal summer camps, Spring 2016 saw the official launch of the first - ever year round Arsenal FC academy in the USA.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

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.

In a letter sent to SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman H. Carl McCall on Oct. 14, officials and education advocates criticized the state's decision to allow Success Academy to change its application to site a school in District 2 — which covers Lower Manhattan, much of the west side and the Upper East Side — so that it could open in Districts 1 or 6.

COBBLE HILL — The well - funded and controversial Success Academy Cobble Hill violated Department of Education regulations by replacing potentially contaminated light fixtures without official permission, city officials confirmed.

The controversial charter school leader, whose Success Academy schools spread to about two dozen locations across the city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has been rejected from a plan to share space with three additional public schools this fall, officials said.

She will also be allowed to relocate the Success Academy location currently housed inside P.S. 167 in Brooklyn into P.S. 161, officials said.

The network's plan to expand into the neighborhood and open a new school called Upper West Success Academy has drawn protests from residents and elected officials.

Upper West Side public school parents, elected officials and Community Board 7 fought for months to keep Upper West Success Academy from moving into an existing public school building.

Success Academy charter school officials want the city to fork over more rooms in the Wadleigh High School campus, according to papers to be filed with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

The high - octane moves, insiders say, show the preferential treatment that DOE officials — including deputy schools chancellor Kathleen Grimm — give Success Academy, whose 22 schools serve just 6,700 of the city's 1.1 million students.

Normally, DOE officials hold meetings on making space for Success Academy in the spring.

Moskowitz's lawyers have already informed city officials they would not submit to city oversight even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks about $ 10,000 in public funds for each of its 72 pre-K students.

Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of dollars in public funds for each student.

Reducing or eliminating funding for these programs would also be especially harmful to charter management organizations that recruit heavily from the AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the program.36

De Blasio officials have made modest overtures to the charter movement in the last several months, even as the well - funded charter groups Families for Excellent Schools and Success Academy have continued to hold large anti-de Blasio rallies.

(Leaked documents from Success Academy's leadership reveal that other senior officials have felt deeply stressed about the network's high staff turnover, and ambivalent about their CEO's rapid expansion plans.)