New District 3 Success Academy charter school approved despite opposition (Columbia Daily Spectator - 10/12/14) #Harlem, #HarlemEd, #CEC3, Frederick Douglass Academy II, Harlem Success Academy II, New York City Department of Education EXCERPT: The latest example of such a space crunch is an art room at the Frederick Douglass Academy II public school on West 114th Street, which was recently transferred to the co-located Harlem Success Academy II after a battle over class space last spring. FDA II’s art classes are now held in 300-square-feet former office that housed five administrative desks, DNAinfo reported. The previous art room was 500 square feet. The DOE justified the switch by pointing to 2010 enrollment predictions, which projected HSA II to have more students than FDA II by 2014—numbers which have since been shown to be incorrect by the SUNY enrollment data. In the 2013-2014 school year, HSA II enrolled 748 students, compared with a projected 782. Meanwhile, FDA II was at its target capacity.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:32:29 +0000