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Harlem Children Zone’s Promise Academy Charter School, Built With $60M From City, Opens

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“We thought it was gonna be a school for kids from St. Nicholas (Houses in Harlem), but it’s not….”

Enthused parents, students, and investors cheered the opening of the Harlem Children’s Zone’s new school and community center — but residents remained skeptical about the $100 million facility. Continue reading

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Bring It On Benefit, Honoring Luis A. Miranda, Jr., Will Fund Harlem Charter School

Members of the Bring It On creative team, including Tony-winning writers Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt, Jeff Whitty and Amanda GreenContinue reading

Harlem RBI’s DREAM Charter School in East Harlem

Perkins Eastman is designing a new four-floor, 63,000 sf home for the DREAM charter school and Harlem RBI offices in East Harlem. Continue reading

Matthew Brittain, Youth Mentor, Speaks Out About The Harlem Children Zone

 

On Wedsenday , July 12th, in Harlem Children Zone , on 134th Street, Harlem World Magazine  Interns  created a HW Radio Podcast with host Nia. The interns of set down and spoke to  Learn to Earn (LTE) student coordinators, and student mentor, Matthew “Mr. Matt” Brittain. Continue reading

Harlem’s Red Rabbit makes Big Leap

As the new school year gets underway, more children will be noshing on tasty fish cakes and pesto chickpeas, some of the most popular dishes of a fast-growing company that provides food services to private and charter schools in New York City. Continue reading

Harlem’s Forced Marriage of Charter & Public Schools is not Jeffersonian

The NY Daily News reports that a walk through Public School 241 and you’ll find contrasting spaces; one bathroom is gray and dingy, with urinals that overflow. Continue reading

Hydroponic Greenhouse Lab Opens at PS 208 in Harlem

One more New York City school is going green, thanks to a partnership with New York Sun Works’ The Greenhouse Project, which aims at improving environmental science offerings in urban settings. Continue reading

Teachers at a Harlem Charter Can Unionize

Teachers at the New York French American Charter School in Harlem at 311 West 120th Street will be allowed to unionize, a state agency decided on Wednesday, overriding objections from the school’s administration. Continue reading

In Harlem, a Charter School Recruits Autistic Children

For the founders of a new charter school opening in Harlem next September, the recruitment process is unlike almost any other. Continue reading

Eva PAC’s Punch for Harlem Schools

In a shot across the bow of the powerful teachers union, Harlem charter-school CEO Eva Moskowitz has launched her own political action committee to back candidates for elected office who support substantial reforms of the public schools.

“It’s about choosing children over special interests. We have a lot of politicians now choosing special interests over teaching and learning,” Moskowitz said of the project, called Great Public Schools PAC. Continue reading