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NYC APPROVES HYDE CHARTER SCHOOL. BEWARE
Anonymous:
This was published in the NY TIMES. I strongly urge those of you who have something to say, to contact the Board of Regents, Mayor Bloomberg, or anyone else who would be interested in the at Hyde School as well as the lack of education.
Where is the proof that Hyde is successful? There are not any accurate statistics that I know of that are truthful coming from the Hyde camp.
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By ELISSA GOOTMAN (NYT) 605 words
Published: January 10, 2006
The Board of Regents subcommittee that handles charter school applications approved four new charter schools for New York City yesterday. But it shut out two would-be school operators, including Ninfa Segarra, a former president of the New York City Board of Education who was also a deputy mayor under Rudolph W. Giuliani.
The charters, which the full board is scheduled to give final approval today, are the last the Regents can authorize under a state law capping the number of charter schools at 100 statewide.
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, who calls charter schools central to his mission of overhauling the city school system, had given his blessing to six charter schools. But because of the cap, which Mr. Klein and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg oppose, the Regents can pick only four.
At the meeting yesterday, the Regents subcommittee followed recommendations by the State Education Department in deciding which of the six schools to select.
The four that were chosen included the International Leadership Charter School, a high school in the Bronx that will require students to study two foreign languages; and the Achievement First Endeavor Charter School in Brooklyn, which would be the third New York school run by a nonprofit group that started creating charters in New Haven.
A third, the Ross Global Academy Charter School planned for Lower Manhattan, will be modeled after the Ross School in East Hampton, N.Y., which was founded by Courtney Sale Ross, the widow of the Time Warner chairman Steven J. Ross. And the fourth, the Hyde Leadership Charter School in northern Manhattan, according to its application, will eventually serve 904 students.
Stephen m0re110, a spokesman for Chancellor Klein, said that all six of the charter schools had been worthy of opening. ''We are delighted that New York City students will have four more charter schools from which to choose and extremely disappointed that they will not have six,'' Mr. m0re110 said.
He said the rejection of two ''points out the absurdity of the cap.''
Ms. Segarra, who worked on Mayor Bloomberg's campaign in the recent election, had proposed the Lower East Side Charter School for Leadership Excellence. It was a middle school that its application said would combine a ''demanding liberal arts education'' with ''character development, ethical values and leadership skills.''
Ms. Segarra did not return telephone calls seeking comment. State evaluators raised questions with her proposed curriculum and fiscal plan.
The other charter school rejected was the Riverview Lighthouse Charter School, which was to be in the Bronx, running through the seventh grade. The evaluators said that another charter school in the Bronx run by the same group had not yet proved effective.
Mr. Klein and Mr. Bloomberg not only want the limit on charter schools lifted, but also want the mayor to have the authority to approve the schools himself, without seeking clearance from the state.
The state charter law allowed 50 schools to be authorized by the Regents and 50 by the State University of New York trustees, which will dole out its remaining four charters at a meeting in two weeks.
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Anonymous:
Before you go bonkers and damn the Hyde Leadership school. Check out the success of their DC school. It's a TOTALLY different animal than the boarding schools.
The whole "troubled teen" piece that everyone is bitching about on this site has NOTHING to do with the charter schools. These kids are normal inner city high school kids that want a chance to become both educated and people of character. They live at home and their parents become involved in the school and their kids lives. The DC school has sent all their seniors to four year colleges on full scholarships. For many, they're the first person in their family to finish high school, let alone go to college.
The public education system keeps a sharp eye on the academics, thus making sure the student receives a well rounded education.
The kids that always do really well at the Hyde boarding schools are the inner city scholarship kids, these schools are full of them!
Again, I repeat, the Charter Hyde Schools are VERY different from the boarding campuses! So save your energy for damning Woodstock and Bath!!!
Anonymous:
Hyde's Mission Statement and Belief Statements
Mission Statement
Hyde School is a community that develops socially responsible leaders while transforming public education. We accomplish these goals through character development, academic rigor, and family renewal.
Belief Statements
We believe that all people have an inherent worth and dignity and a unique potential that defines a destiny.
We believe that Leadership means asking the best of ourselves and others, and therefore all people have the potential for leadership.
We believe that socially responsible leaders understand that inherent interdependence of the human experience, that we are all accountable to and for others, that we are our Brother's Keeper.
We believe that leaders in the 21st century must have both the intellectual skills and the strength of character to make informed and ethical decisions.
We believe that we achieve our best, and discover our unique potentials, by developing character and conscience.
We believe that if we focus on character first in all our programs, then achievement in academics and other areas will naturally follow, as students will learn the discipline of going after their best.
We believe in the action-reflection model of growth, that we put people in challenging situations and help them to reflect on their decisions and obstacles.
We believe we must focus on truth over harmony and in using truth as our primary guide in making decisions.
We believe that public education can be transformed by making the development of character a primary function of school and emphasizing attitude over aptitude, effort over ability, and character over talent.
We believe that parents are the primary teachers and the home is the primary classroom.
We believe that we can not teach character directly, but that parents and teachers must inspire it and model it by being full participants in our character development process.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-01-23 18:13:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Hyde's Mission Statement and Belief Statements
Mission Statement
Hyde School is a community that develops socially responsible leaders while transforming public education. We accomplish these goals through character development, academic rigor, and family renewal.
Belief Statements
We believe that all people have an inherent worth and dignity and a unique potential that defines a destiny.
We believe that Leadership means asking the best of ourselves and others, and therefore all people have the potential for leadership.
We believe that socially responsible leaders understand that inherent interdependence of the human experience, that we are all accountable to and for others, that we are our Brother's Keeper.
We believe that leaders in the 21st century must have both the intellectual skills and the strength of character to make informed and ethical decisions.
We believe that we achieve our best, and discover our unique potentials, by developing character and conscience.
We believe that if we focus on character first in all our programs, then achievement in academics and other areas will naturally follow, as students will learn the discipline of going after their best.
We believe in the action-reflection model of growth, that we put people in challenging situations and help them to reflect on their decisions and obstacles.
We believe we must focus on truth over harmony and in using truth as our primary guide in making decisions.
We believe that public education can be transformed by making the development of character a primary function of school and emphasizing attitude over aptitude, effort over ability, and character over talent.
We believe that parents are the primary teachers and the home is the primary classroom.
We believe that we can not teach character directly, but that parents and teachers must inspire it and model it by being full participants in our character development process.
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I believe the "mission statement" is fantastic! Problem is that the boarding schools do NOT adhere to these statements and the worst offenders are the staff and owners who are a part of the school.
Another "poster" stated that the charter schools are not at all like the boarding schools. This is encouraging and I truly hope it is true, because the boarding schools are not only dangerous, they are harmful to the majority of the kids who go there. It is hard to believe that the same people who have harmed the kids at the boarding school, could be helping the kids at the Charter Schools. I hope this poster is right, but I would like to see statistics, not just on how many kids are "accepted" to colleges, but how many attend and are still there after the first year!
Anonymous:
This is the Charter School Mission statement
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