Grants That Make a Difference
November 1, 2004
New York Community Trust Supports New Public Schools in Low-Income Areas
Grant Recipient:
Replications, Inc.
Teachers College, Columbia University
Box 138, 525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027-6696
(212) 678-3248
http://www.replications.org
Foundation:
The New York Community Trust
2 Park Ave., 24th Fl.
New York, NY 10016-9385
(212) 686-0010
http://www.nycommunitytrust.org
Grant Amount:
$100,000 over two years
Description:
Low-income communities have recently been benefiting from the emergence of alternative schools developed from various educational philosophies. Reproducing the exceptional schools is challenging since their success is often tied to the work of the founders.
Replications, Inc. has been able to overcome this obstacle, establishing nine schools in the North and South Bronx, Harlem, and Bedford Stuyvesant in the last five years. It places a team of teachers at an exemplary school for a year. The team then starts a new school in another under-resourced community, with one of the teachers serving as the school leader.
Within the next two years, Replications will expand its programs, starting eight middle schools and eight high schools. The leadership development program that supports the new principals will be funded in part by a $100,000 grant from the New York Community Trust.
New York Community Trust Grants Newsletter, July 2004
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