Girls Prep Announces Exclusive Scholarship with Stephens College

March 2012

Stephens College, the second-oldest women’s college in the country, announced today that for the first time in its 179-year history it will offer a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to a student from Girls Prep Lower East Side Middle School, the first all-girls charter school in New York City. 

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Girls Prep LES Middle School Shout Out!

by Steve Evangelista, February 16, 2012

Meena Boppana shares her love for math, and her experience working with Girls Prep Middle Schoolers!

Kennedy and Klein, Charter Champions

By Jeremy B. White, March 9, 2011

Caroline Kennedy made a rare public appearance this afternoon to join former schools chief Joel Klein at a reception [for Public Prep] at the midtown hotspot Monkey Bar and to preach the virtues of charter schools.

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Innovation Agents: Ian Rowe, CEO of Public Prep

By: Noah Robischon, October 21, 2010

Have you located your north star? Do you even have a compass? Ian Rowe's story will inspire you to find it if you haven't already -- at least that's his goal. Rowe's journey took him from the Gates Foundation to MTV and The White House USA Freedom Corps before he became the CEO of Public Prep, a network of non-profit single-sex charter schools. He's taken everything he learned in the private sector and applied it to public education. Are you using your skills to make a difference?

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Ian V. Rowe Named Chief Executive Officer of the Public Preparatory Network

August 24, 2010

NEW YORK, August 24, 2010 -- Public Preparatory Network, a non-profit organization that manages the highest-performing, single sex public charter schools in New York City, today announced Ian V. Rowe as its new Chief Executive Officer. The Public Prep Board of Directors cited Mr. Rowe’s demonstrated ability to lead complex organizations, form innovative strategic partnerships, raise capital, build public awareness and navigate the new media landscape as reasons for his appointment...

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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."

Girls Prep Daisy Chronicle

Fall, 2009

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