Six New Charter Schools To Open in Brooklyn
At least six new charter schools are expected to open in Brooklyn within the next two years. Park Slope’s Brooklyn Prospect Charter School has already been reported by the Daily News, but applications for four other K – 8 charter schools were approved by SUNY on the same day, all to be managed by Uncommon…
At least six new charter schools are expected to open in Brooklyn within the next two years. Park Slope’s Brooklyn Prospect Charter School has already been reported by the Daily News, but applications for four other K – 8 charter schools were approved by SUNY on the same day, all to be managed by Uncommon Schools. Mini “scholars” at the four schools can expect rigorous instruction from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Excellence Charter School for Girls, in the Bed-Stuy school district, and Leadership Preparatory East New York are scheduled to open this fall. Leadership Preparatory Flatbush and Brownsville are scheduled to open the following school year. Uncommon Schools also announced plans for their first charter high school in Crown Heights, located at 1485 Pacific Street at Kingston Avenue. Uncommon Schools spokeswoman Megan Zug said the organization purposefully chooses low-income neighborhoods “to close the achievement gap between low-income and high-income students.”
The private and publicly-funded high school designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects would have “four floors of brand new classrooms, science labs, art studios, a library, a technology center, a thousand-seat ‘cafetorium,’ several full-size gymnasiums, and a rooftop playfield,” according to the announcement. Up to 1,600 students from four existing charter middle schools would attend. One of those schools, the Excellence Charter School for Boys in Bed-Stuy (pictured), had SUNY’s third-largest difference from its local district in proficiency on the standardized English Language Arts exam, at 94 percent proficient versus 48 percent. In Math, 100 percent of the students passed versus 72.1 percent in the district, according to a SUNY annual report. Almost all charter schools fared better than their local district counterparts in the report, which detailed some pretty crisis-level proficiency rates. Do you think charter schools the solution to this crisis? What about the long days for elementary and middle school kids? Are they necessary, or should the kids be getting more downtime?
New Brookyln Charter School Recruiting Students for Fall ’09 Opening [Daily News]
Teaching Boys and Girls Separately [NY Times]
why do all brownstoner “discussions” go the same way?
feel free to interpret my comments to fit your personal prejudices everyone.
except you, liberal natural mediator guy, you say something reasonable that everyone will ignore.
Uh oh, here comes pissed righteous female
that guy asked if that was the case, he wasn’t complaining. Unless you see everything through those spectacles.
the guy who is complaining that you have to be poor to go to these schools. I guess you feel that way abotu food stamps and medicaid too!
where is the complaining about that? please point to the post.
You’re not wrong, 1:19.
Only on Brownstoner would people complain about the kids of Brownsville getting a charter school. “Wha! Wha! What about me!”
Charter school preferences are not neighborhood based, they are district based. So for example, District 13 in Brooklyn includes parts of the following neighborhoods: Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill, Ft Greene,Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, and a sliver of Cobble Hill. District 14 is Bed Stuy, Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, Greepoint, Williamsburg, and Bushwick. Excluding kids from outside of the district is not the same as excluding kids from any particular neighborhood. And, in fact, charter preferences use the same district lines as NYC public schools, so your child is applying to schools in exactly the same area as they would if they were applying to public schools.
And again, living outside of that district does not automatically mean you will not get a spot in the school. There are a variety of factors that drive enrollment. Preferences are just that, but if not enough children from the district apply, other seats can be filled by any child who is a New York State resident. So, if there is a charter school you might be interested in, put in an application. Its no worse than the process for applying to private schools, and its free.
New to this discussion, but:
dude, you can get a large 2 br/2ba with den in that new fancy Brooklyn Bridge Park condo place for under 1mm. I saw them this weekend. and this is the kind of place with putting greens and refrigerated storage. you suffer through living there , I’m sure.
or, if you search on corcoran (and only them) in CH, BH, and PS for 3 bedroom places for under 1mm you get 17 choices. I saw one that only needs cosmetic work on frickin’ Pierrepont Street.
I guess you’re saying you want to own a townhouse in NYC and send your kids to charter school. In which case: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Charter schools can be a great relief for overcrowded neighborhoods or persistently poor performing schools. They have more freedom to innovate and tend to be more flexible. It is too bad the regular public schools are not give the same level of freedom.
While charter schools run the gamut from traditional to progressive, the ones that open in inner cities tend to be of the highly scripted, highly disciplined style with a lot of rote learning. Many have great results both on tests and in keeping kids in school and getting disadvantaged kids off to college.