Last year 61% of the teachers in the school left. Kenny says ” I don’t care if you don’t call it charter, but all schools need to function like that in order to attract the best people and keep them happy and make them passionate about their job.” Yet most teachers left.
Look at the cohort decline. Look att he VERY LOW scores on the fifth grade ELA test.Prob lots of nice things happening there….but please
R.I.P. Richmond Hill
I loved the article on turnaround schools. Even the students think the UFT does a terrible job protecting teachers! What a disgusting mess these schools have become because of this process.
where is the real data
Harlem Success(lol)—that is still only part of the story–what is the turnover rate in the earlier grades? in other words your total class size numbers ignore that they could have taken in twice as many total students in the earl grades and weeded out those that “didn’t perform”—–so as stark as your figures are they are really a best case scenario and the attrition could be far far higher
NYCParent
Re — “Some cohorts at Harlem Success 1 lost more than a third of their enrollment by last year. (Insideschools)”
… like we’ve been saying … for years! If KIPP and Success charter schools cannot educate full cohorts of children, as has been demonstrably proven they can’t, they should not have their charters renewed; they should not be getting taxpayer dollars.
anonymus
The story on Anniversary Day in the Queens paper was excellent but it left something out and once again it is the weakness of the union that is supposedly there to protect its members. Brooklyn-Queens Day was not only a day off for the kids in Brooklyn and Queens, it was a day off for the staffs too. It was a small perk in this Manhattan centric city for those working in Brooklyn and Queens and the closure of the schools in Brooklyn and Queens on this day is of course mandated by State law. Ever since Bloomberg started his destruction of the school system, this was one of the things he tried to get changed (I know the loss of one instructional day is so precious, it means the differencde between whatever and whatever). In any event they went to Albany and the Brooklyn-Queens legislators refused to change that law so instead the union representing the teachou can call it whatever you want, threw its Brooklyn-Queens teachers under the bus. Instead ot
Lurking
How about the teachers in the Bronx and Staten Island? What say you about them?
They didn’t add to yur burden; they never had the day off. Look, it’s more symbolic than anything and not a big deal in the scheme of things. It was a nice perk of working in Brooklyn and Queens and it was a holiday for the teachers there since 1829 (and I understand it was probably the complaints of teachers in the other boroughs that forced the UFT’s hand. Simply a part of Brooklyn history, lost and gone forever but really agreed no big deal.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm
Some cohorts at Harlem Success 1 lost more than a third of their enrollment by last year. (Insideschools)
DUHHHHHHHH!
Want to bet many of these lost kids are in public schools? More bull from HSA just like those phantom waiting lists.
I’ll also bet there’s a bit of attrition from a few of the high end parents who don’t want their kids treated like being in military school. Suspension rates are an indicator of — well, can water boarding be far behind? Do they play Sesame Street music loudly and intermittently? A great education for a future at Guantanamo.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm
And how about adding to the Deborah Kenney story which got some play because Cathie Black (remember her?) was put on the Board of HVA, Ed Notes has this item back in the good old days of Bloomberg’s best appointee:
“Cathie Black’s placement on the board
of Harlem Village Academy as a way to get her ed creds- despite the fact
that she didn’t attend any meetings, has focused attention on this
scandalous school and its relation to the BloomKlein corrupt running of
the NYCDOE. This school has been lauded nationally. So naturally school
founder Deborah Kenney takes home $450,000 for managing 450 students.
HVA loses 32% of their students between 6th and 8th grades and there is
vast teacher turnover. Bloomberg has called the school a national
“poster child” for school reform. Conservative media mogul Rupert
Murdoch gave $5 million. The charter school scam in full flower.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm
Williamsburg’s Southside Decries Success Academy’s Bad Geography
North Brooklyn Parents Give Eva Moskowitz a Lesson in Geography and Manners.
Parents from Williamsburg and Greenpoint are gathering on North 6th Street
(between Wythe & Kent Avenues) for a press conference to call
attention to the most recent in a litany of insults to the ‘Los Sures’
(Southside Williamsburg) community by the Success Academy Charter
Schools.
Success
Academy has faced wide community opposition, primarily for its lack of
sincere outreach to, or collaboration with, the largely Latino Los Sures
community into which they are entering – Success Academy Williamsburg
is being co-located in an existing public middle school, MS 50 on South 3rd St. Yet, from its inception, the corporate-driven charter school has conducted its outreach and advocacy primarily outside of
the Southside. From blanketing the Northside’s Bedford Avenue L-train
Station with huge billboards (rather than the Southside’s Marcy Avenue
J/M Station), to hosting meet-and-greets sessions in affluent Northside
homes, it seems evident that Success Academy had intentionally omitted
or diminished the school’s Southside location.
“The
total disregard of the Latino Community and its real need for a quality
middle school, by the preordained occupation of an unwanted, unneeded
Eva Moskowitz School, is the most blatant and disempowering form of
‘Benign Neglect’ ”, states Ramón Peguero, Executive Director of the
Southside United HDFC, the community’s first and largest network of
affordable housing. (Mr. Peguero, an attorney, is also the former
President and now, a leading member of the Department of Education’s
official Community Education Council).
Today,
Southside and Northside parents alike are gathering to call attention
to Success Academy’s most recent affront – the school’s Meet the New
Principal/new parent orientation event will not be hosted in a Southside
community venue, or the school itself. Rather, their school launch is
taking place at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on North 6th Street – all but a world away from South 3rd Street, where the school and the school community are geographically located.
The press conference and gathering are not to protest Success Academy administration or parents, but rather to welcome them.
Regardless of Success Academy’s seeming intent to separate their new
school from the school community, the Southside school community is
traveling to the Northside today, as a sign of its commitment to
engaging Success Academy Williamsburg as members – to invite them to
recognize and take part in a rich legacy of committed parent
participation, dedicated community leadership, and open-minded
collaboration that transcends geography.
Press Conference
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 5:30pm
North 6th Street Brooklyn 11249
(between Wythe & Kent Avenues; near/across the Music Hall of Williamsburg)
Dr.
A video report on the disrespect shown by the Success Academy Charter School Network towards the Los Sures Community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn:
“VERY LOW scores on the fifth grade ELA test” makes perfect sense if you think about it. Harlem Village Academy gets students at the beginning of fifth grade, when they are well under grade level. It’s actually amazing to see how much scores increase year after year! Just looking at students’ first year at any school is a poor measure in determining overall effectiveness.
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