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Ursus:
Two entries from the current Hyde-Bronx Leadership Charter School Administrative Team page:

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Joanne Goubourn, Head of School
A graduate of Hyde School in Bath, Maine, Joanne Goubourn began her distinguished career in education in 1988 with the primary goal of "changing American education." No small task—but she has been accomplishing this by starting up four successful inner city schools, including the Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx. Joanne and her schools have been featured in the Washington Post, Good Morning America, and the Keith Faison Show, as well as other publications and television shows.

A native of Lowell, MA, Joanne graduated from Hyde School in 1975. She received a BA in Liberal Arts/Urban Studies from Wellesley College, an MA in Human Resource Development from American International College, and she is a Doctorate of Education candidate in Educational Administration and Policy at Howard University.

She is the former head of the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School in Washington, DC, the model for Hyde-Bronx. Prior to leading a Hyde school, she was an integral part of the leadership team on three school start-up operations, one public magnet school and 2 charter schools. She was the Director of the New Leadership Charter School, Springfield, Massachusetts. Her understanding of the Hyde philosophy, school administration and school governance combined with her experience serving a similar population to the one Hyde-Bronx serves, places her exceptionally well to serve as Head of School.

She is currently serving with the Association of Supervisors of Curriculum and Development. She was an advocate for children in the court system (CASA) and member of the National Black Child Development Institute. The mother of two children, Kevin and Lauren, Joanne is a two-year resident of the Bronx, NY.

Pierre Goubourn, Director, Admissions & Community Outreach
Pierre Goubourn, Director of Admissions and Community Outreach, has been involved with community work for more than 30 years. Born in Panama, Mr. Goubourn moved with his family to Brooklyn, NY, in 1962, and graduated from high school there in 1968. He spent 10 years with the US Navy, earning his BA from Southern Connecticut State University in 1978. Mr. Goubourn, fluent in five languages, worked for United Illuminated from 1970 to 1998. He joined the faculty of the New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, MA, in 2000. In 2003 he joined the senior management team at the Hyde Leadership Charter School in Washington, DC. There, in addition to being Director of Facilities and a Spanish teacher, Mr. Goubourn again worked tirelessly with families in the inner city community. In 2006, Mr. Goubourn joined Hyde Leadership Charter School.

Ursus:
Eventually, however, things did not work out for Hyde at the Springfield, Massachusetts public charter. Hyde School likes to have a lot of control over its charter schools. They don't just start them and enable the community to run them; they like to have a critical percentage of their "own people" in place to ensure that it stays "fully Hyde-ified," as they put it...

Since the Springfield New Leadership Charter School did not bother changing its name, and still appears to have the same goals and marketing style that all the other Hyde School public charters have, I'd say chances are pretty good that the dogmatic "ethics" curriculum and "character culture" are functioning right in line with the other Hyde public charters, just not under the Gauld family's thumb.

From James Traub's 2005 article "The Moral Imperative" (Education Next):

Joe Gauld, a prophet and evangelizer in the great New England tradition, has always believed that the Hyde model is destined to replace what he sees as a dead-end academic-achievement model. So far, however, Hyde's efforts at self-replication, which Gauld has headed, have been rocky. In the early 1990s, the Hyde team tried and failed to open schools in nearby Gardiner; in Springfield, Massachusetts; and in Baltimore. In several cases, say the Gaulds, they were blocked by hostile teacher unions, since they demanded the right to hire their own faculty. Hyde now enrolls about 1,400 students at its four schools. The New Haven school is widely considered successful, but the Hyde content has drained out of it almost altogether. Only in D.C. can one test whether the Hyde model can be applied to a public school rather than to a private residential one and to a school that serves disadvantaged kids rather than financially privileged ones. Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K–12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working-class. Joanne Goubourn, the headmistress, said that she had had to scuttle certain aspects of Brother's Keeper for fear of ensuing "fights out in the street." She notes that parental involvement is much less than it is at Bath (though still significant by the standards of urban public schools). Goubourn feels that it may take another five years before the school is fully Hyde-ified.[/list]

Ursus:
Compare the language:


From the Springfield New Leadership Charter School Administrative Team page:

--- Quote ---Excellence Lives Here!

New Leadership Charter School is a community of caring, talented and dedicated teachers and staff, eager to serve our students and their families.

From the start we have worked hard to build a true partnership with our parents, together helping students go after their best. New Leadership parents and guardians consistently step up to meet the high expectations required of them, We strive to make New Leadership a school that can provide a top-notch, rigorous academic program and, utilizing the New Leadership character culture, meet the emotional needs of all students, parents, and staff—a school that will thrive, making decisions based on what is best for the students and not for the adults.
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From the Hyde-Bronx New Leadership Charter School Administrative Team page:

--- Quote ---Excellence Lives Here!

Hyde-Bronx is a community of caring, talented and dedicated teachers and staff, eager to serve our students and their families.

"From the start we have worked hard to build a true partnership with our parents, together helping students go after their best. Hyde-Bronx parents and guardians consistently step up to meet the high expectations required of them," says Joanne Goubourn, Head of School. "Personally, this school represents the realization of a dream for me. My dream has been a school that can provide a top-notch, rigorous academic program and, utilizing the Hyde character culture, meet the emotional needs of all students, parents, and staff—a school that will thrive, making decisions based on what is best for the students and not for the adults."
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Anonymous:
They have taken the pebble out of the masters hand.  When you are not selling anything tangible there is no need for a middle man.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "grasshopper" ---They have taken the pebble out of the masters hand.  When you are not selling anything tangible there is no need for a middle man.
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"intangible"....................... as in: completely lacking in substance or relevance?

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