Girls interrupted: Procedural fight can't thwart growth of successful charter school
June 20, 2010
The latest front in the war on charter schools is a perverse bureaucratic assault on a phenomenally successful program for girls.
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Techies with a Cause
BusinessWeek, June 3, 2010
Girls Prep Lower East Side Middle School scholars learns to build websites with a little help from CodeEd
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SUNY's Charter Schools Institute Grants Public Prep Its Third Charter for Boys Prep Elementary School
Spring 2010
In Spring 2010, Public Prep was granted its third charter from SUNY's Charter Schools Institute, in order to open its first all-boys school — the Boys Preparatory Charter School of New York. We are currently accepting applications for the Founding Principal position.
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Scholarly Investments
New York Times, December 4, 2009
THEIR company names were conspicuously absent from their nametags, but that is how these hedge fund managers and analysts — members of a field known for secrecy — preferred it. They filled the party space at the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in late October, mostly men in their 30s...
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Word Perfect
New York Post, May 9, 2005
Girls Prep ranks second on New York Post listing for "Percentage of kids acing elementary and middle school state reading tests."
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Sonia Sotomayor room at Girls Prep
Gotham Schools, July 28, 2009
A South Bronx school is racing to be the first to honor Sonia Sotomayor, the federal judge whose Supreme Court appointment is all but assured after being endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee today...
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Girls Prep Charter Wants More Space, Not a Fight
Gotham Schools, September 30, 2009
In the tug-of-war between charter school advocates and opponents over building space for the city’s charter schools, emotions frequently churn and bubble over; protests and shouting matches are not unheard of. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way, a team of district and charter school administrators who share a Lower East Side building said today...
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Bronx School Aims to Inspire Girls
WNYC, September 1, 2009
"New York City public school students don't head back to class until next Wednesday. But some charter schools have already opened, including a new one in the Bronx just for girls…"
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