Why Black Lives Matter Must Protect the Parents Protesting Via Public Charter Schools
The 74 Million / By Derrell Bradford
Originally published: 9.6.2016
Black life matters, but black education, just like black trust, matters too.
Black life matters, but black education, just like black trust, matters too.
A record number of students at the city’s largest charter school network are participating in extracurricular activities this new school year, network officials said.
More than 9,000 Success Academy students are cheerleading, playing soccer, studying chess and enjoying other activities in 350 different clubs in the network’ school year that began Aug. 15.
Charter school organization Success Academy opened two new schools in Queens this week in Far Rockaway and South Jamaica, bringing the total number of its schools in the borough to four.
The Far Rockaway school, located at 10-45 Nameoke St., and the South Jamaica school at 120-27 141 St., the former site of the John Adams High School Jumpstart Academy, are opening with grades K-1, while the organization’s Rosedale and Springfield Gardens locations are serving students from grades K through 3. The latter two schools started class Aug. 15.
Recent math test results coming out of a charter school in the south Bronx have been off the charts!
Success Academy Bronx 1, located at 339 Morris Avenue, within the Paul Robeson School Complex, has shown excellence and achievement with their most recent test scores in math.
Charter-school students with-disabilities and English language learners are outperforming their public-school peers on state exams, according to new data.
Success Academy scholars achieved outstanding results this year, even as we grew swiftly. 94% of our scholars passed math, 82% passed English, and 100% passed the science exam. These results are a reflection of the extraordinary learning by our scholars and remarkable teaching by our dedicated educators.
The Success Academy team grabbed fistfuls of gold medals on the state math and English exams this year…
Success Academy launches an innovative summer program to provide scholars with new learning opportunities.
If you want to find real improvement, you need to look at schools whose scores increased more than the seven points that were almost certainly attributable to giving students unlimited time. There is a set of schools that meets that criteria: the city’s charter schools, where English proficiency increased by 14 percentage points, double the statewide average.
New York’s public school kids registered impressive gains on this year’s standardized English test — with the city outpacing the rest of the state to catch up with statewide proficiency rates for the first time.
In fact, the single-year leap to 38% of children reading at or above grade level from 30% represented a stunning eight-percentage-point gain, roughly four times the average increase since 2011.