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A school grows in Harlem.
The city will spend $60 million – and a private group will raise $40 million more – to build a new home for a charter school in the middle of a housing project.The project will let the Harlem Children Zone’s Promise Academy expand to 1,300 students and give admission preference to residents of the St. Nicholas Houses, where it will rise.
The school, which now shares space with Public School 175, now enrolls students from kindergarten through sixth grade and also has grades 9 and 10. The new facility, to open in fall 2011, will eventually be a full K-12 school, officials said, and create 100 permanent new jobs.
“If there has been some thought that charter schools have not served children with the highest needs,” said Harlem Children’s Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada, “we want to put the school where the need is.”
Residents would have access to the building for community meetings, after-school programs and adult courses. The city would own the building. Willie Mae Lewis, the president of the St. Nicholas Houses tenants association, praised the plan. “It’s a very big opportunity for our community,” she said.
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Another example where Blacks are being bought off by corporate entities so that the privatization of our schools can continue. W. M. Lewis works in a public school doing very little to promote its efforts; she simply sits on her backside all day reviewing the current circulars and searching the web, and yet she praises the efforts of Canada to serve our children. LOL He’s serving our children as she disserves them. Was she guaranteed a position when the new school opens? Ask questions. Something smells foul. BTW 60 milllion dollars when the working class and poor citizens are being told they have to pay higher fees and taxes to save the city is the height of disregard from Bloomberg and the city administration. One day in the near future WE will all see how Blacks have been paid to destroy what Thurgood Marshall fought so hard for – the right of EVERY child to receive an education.