[Steve] Perrys New York City charter school application generates requests for investigations (JonathanPelto - 11/25/14) #HarlemEd: Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School, Boys and Girls Club of Harlem EXCERPT: At their November meeting, the P-12 Education Committee of the New York Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of Commissioner John B. King, Jr and the staff of the New York State Department of Education, voted to approve the application for the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School. In the memo to the P-12 Committee, Cosimo Tangorra, Jr. wrote, “The Commissioner and Department staff recommend that the Board of Regents consider, approve and issue initial charters and provisional charters for the following four new charter schools.” The list included Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School. The memo added, “In New York City, Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School, proposed as a replication of an effective magnet school in Connecticut, will partner with the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem to provide middle- and high-school students with a rigorous, year-round college preparatory curriculum” and recommended, “VOTED: That the Regents find that the proposed charter school: (1) meets the requirements set out in Article 56 of the Education Law, and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations; (2) will operate in an educationally and fiscally sound manner; (3) is likely to improve student learning and achievement and materially further the purposes set out in subdivision two of section twenty-eight hundred fifty of Article 56 of the Education Law; and (4) will have a significant educational benefit to the students expected to attend the charter school, and the Board of Regents therefore approves and issues a charter and provisional charter to the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School for a term of five years in accordance with §2851(2)(p) of the Education Law.” See: regents.nysed.gov/meetings/2014/November2014/1114p12a3.pdf. However, either the Commissioner, staff and Regent’s Committee were unaware that Mr. Perry and his fellow charter school applicants do not own the concepts, materials or intellectual property that they claim or the Commissioner, staff and Committee was aware of this issue and are intentionally engaging in what appear to be Mr, Perry’s criminal violation of copyrighted material owned by the Hartford, Connecticut Board of Education. For background, the application to open the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School was submitted by Steve Perry and his private company, Capital Preparatory Schools, Inc. Steve Perry is a full-time employee of the Hartford Board of Education and serves as the principal of Hartford’s Capital Preparatory Magnet School, a public school owned and operated by the Hartford Board of Education and located on Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. The public school is funded by federal, state and local funds. In 2012, Mr. Perry created a Connecticut company which he named “Capital Preparatory Schools, Inc.” When forming the corporation, Mr. Perry filed with the Connecticut Secretary of the State that his company was located at his residence in Middletown, Connecticut. However, for purposes of the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Perry, until recently, has been using the address of the public school in which he works. . . . However, neither Steve Perry nor his private company has any legal right to those concepts, materials or intellectual property. Since Steve Perry and his associates are full-time employees of the Hartford Board of Education, the copyright laws are extremely clear. Concepts, materials and intellectual property created by employees of a school district are the sole property of the school district. Even the Hartford Board of Education’s own policies specifically address the issue by stating, ‘Materials created by staff at the instigation and/or direction of superiors and/or during work-time shall be considered “work made for hire” under Sections 201(b) and 101 of the Copyright Act and shall be solely the property of the school district.” [Click below to read the full article.]
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:18:47 +0000
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