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October 23, 2009
Success Charter Network advertising for open spots at new, current schools
With all the talk of budget cuts and the hiring freeze, it’s difficult to remember that some city schools are hiring. But there was an eye-catching reminder on the New York Times’ home page yesterday — a bright orange and blue ad from the Success Charter Network asking for applicants.
Success Charter spokeswoman Jennifer Sedlis said the recruitment drive is aimed at attracting applicants for next school year, when Eva Moskowitz, the network’s founder, plans to open three more schools. Harlem Successes 5, 6, and 7 are steps in Moskowitz’s goal to open 40 of her charter schools in Harlem in the next decade.
“We will have a lot of new positions,” Sedlis said. “We get the bulk of our applications in winter, sort of right after the break. We really have to recruit a lot of teachers.”
The charter network is also in the awkward position of having to recruit a new principal for the first Harlem Success school it opened in 2006. Less than half-way into the new school year, principal Jacqueline Getz has left the school, Sedlis confirmed, though she would not say why. Getz joined Harlem Success Academy 1 this past summer after leaving P.S. 87, where she had been principal.
While it waits for a new principal, Harlem Success Academy 1 is being overseen by a “strong leadership team,” Sedlis said. Asked what that means, she said: “It means the teachers are not without a strong leader.”
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October 23rd, 2009 7:59 pm
Why not do a story on why the principal left?
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October 23rd, 2009 10:26 pm
yes, interesting that this tidbit about the principal leaving was only posted “below the fold”
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October 24th, 2009 12:18 pm
I don’t have the means to investigate state law and the HSA Charter - but are they even complying with the law when they are running a school with no principal?
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October 25th, 2009 2:02 pm
[...] (Clarion Ledger) Mont. — Chances of Race to the Top money slim (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) N.Y. — Success Charter Network advertising for open spots (Gotham Schools) Ore. — Catholic charter schools risk losing their identity (Oregon Faith Report) [...]
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October 25th, 2009 8:01 pm
principal left plus to AP’s
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October 29th, 2009 11:47 pm
She left the school at the beginning of the school year and her APs were fired. There is a smoking gun here. Getz is supposedly so pissed off, the was thinking of going public. Some reporter should dig. I posted this at ed notes on Oct. 12:
Fear and Loathing at Evil’s Harlem Success Empire - Another Deep Throat Emerges
Deep throats at HSA seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Starting tomorrow: lie detector tests. Can’t wait for the people who left to start talking.
Anon email:
I saw that you posted on the principal (Jacqui Getz) leaving Harlem Success Academy. It’s true! She and two school leaders left with her. This is the second principal to leave in two years. Last year’s principal was fired mid year, just before the third grade exams. He was good, just didn’t fit Eva’s idea of what a principal should be.
I don’t know how she can get away with not having an Administrator in that school. Doesn’t the State follow through on it. She should be out of compliance somehow!
I think they’ll be bleeding teachers and staff by the boat-loads this year.
They already lost a teacher this year. So you have a number of people leaving in the first two months already.
Earlier in the year, she told teachers that it was not in her “vision” for the school to have teachers unionize - I bet you they would, if there was anyone planning on staying longer than a year or two. Plus, people are too afraid to even attempt that.
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