City Passive on Goal to Open Charter to More UWS Kids

City education officials have been saying for months that they wanted to give District 3 students the best chance of attending the proposed Upper West Side charter school, but they do not appear to have done much to make it happen before the vote to approve the school next week.
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Finally: McCourt HS

Before literary legend and longtime New York City public school teacher Frank McCourt died this past summer, efforts were underway to create a school in his honor. Now that plan has become a reality. On Oct. 6, the Department of Education announced that the Frank McCourt High School will open in fall 2010 as part of the Brandeis campus, on West 84th Street.

The small, selective school will eventually serve 432 students when all high school grades are added during the 2013-14 school year. McCourt was best known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of  Angela’s Ashes, but he also taught for 29 years, mostly at Stuyvesant High School. Read more

New Writing High School?

With Brandeis High School being replaced by three new institutions in 2009, the Department of Education is currently considering proposals and gathering community input for a fourth school to open in September 2010. Last week, officials held a community meeting on the campus, at 145 W. 84th St. Read more