Family Information Sessions

Feb. 23, 2010 • 7:00 – 8:00 pm

March 2, 2010 • 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Light food will be served.

Operation Exodus (basement of Washington Heights Presbyterian Church)

21 Wadsworth Avenue

New York, NY 10033

For more information call: 212-437-8361

Manhattan Times Article

Please check out the new Manhattan Times (Feb. 3rd, 2010 edition). They highlight all three charter schools within Community School District 6.

We are glad that there is a newspaper which represents the issues that are relevant to our specific community.

Applications Available!

If you have a child in the 4th grade in Community School District 6, please see our website for applications. Download and send the application to: admissions@inwoodacademy.org or mail to: Christina Reyes 111 Broadway Suite 604, New York, NY 10006.

Gotham Schools Article – SED Change

Yesterday, Gotham Schools did an article about the policy change concerning our lottery preference. We are excited about this change and are hopeful that this will allow us to reach out to the students who need it the most within our community.

We thank Anna and Gotham Schools for highlighting this issue!

Update to the Gotham Schools Article/ELL preference

We received word last week that we will be able to have a preference in our lottery for ELL students. This allows us to be true to our mission and community. We thank the SED for changing the policy that hindered this preference and for those who advocated on our behalf.

Featured in Gotham Schools

Recently we were featured in an article by Gotham Schools, a local blog that  does a great job of reporting on all education news in the five boroughs.

This article explained our goal to have English Language Learners be given preference within our lottery and how current policy is not allowing us to do this.

Check out the article here: Gotham Schools Article.

Approval!

On Dec. 14th, the New York State Board of Regents voted to approve our Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School! This is a wonderful moment in our history.Congrats to all involved and the other schools that were also approved yesterday.

Next steps:

- Find a space

- Recruit students

- Hire staff

Please look for student appplications to be made available in early January.

Find out more information about yesterday’s Regents vote at:

http://gothamschools.org/2009/12/14/regents-urge-legislature-to-double-number-of-charters/

State Board of Regents Vote!

Here we come. Tomorrow around 1pm, our charter application will be voted on (and we believe approved) and we will be an official charter school according to the New York State Education Dept. I will be headed to Albany early in the morning. Look for upcoming posts about new steps including student applications and recruitment and the beginning of the hiring process.

Quick Update

We continue to go through the SED clarification process. Depending on new questions this week we will either be headed to a Regents vote of approval in December or in January. We are hopeful for a December vote.

SED Clarification Process

In the past month, IALCS has gone through a series of clarifying questions posed by the State Education Dept.

These questions seek to review and revise our current appplication so that it is able to align completely with state law.

There will continue to be additional questions in the next week as we move forward in the process.

The great news is, the Board of Regents vote may be moved up by one month! This is exciting news for us as it will allow us to get started earlier in student and staff recruitment!