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New York City school chancellor Joel Klein met informally with the faculty of Brooklyn Ascend Charter School today, in the final days of the school’s three-week Summer Institute for faculty. Over breakfast at the school’s newly completed facility, the chancellor and founding faculty members engaged in a lively and candid conversation spanning the promise of No Excuses schooling, his enthusiasm for charter schools, and his reform strategy for the city. Klein… Read more

The Trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY) awarded a second facility grant, of $350,000, to Brooklyn Ascend Charter School today. The grant was awarded under the State Stimulus Fund, which authorizes SUNY to award discretionary grants to charter schools for costs associated with the acquisition, renovation, or construction of charter school facilities.

The award, the largest permitted under the competitive grants program, comes after an earlier grant in the … Read more

An intensive three-week training program today began today for the founding faculty of Brooklyn Ascend Charter School. The Summer Institute’s curriculum will span Ascend’s mission, core values, classroom management, building the No Excuses school culture, lesson planning, the SABIS educational system, “point and prefect” instruction, team meetings, classroom procedures, and much more. The sessions, from 7:30 am until 5:00 pm each day, will inclu… Read more