WHEN: Thursday, April 27, 5pm
WHAT: Rally at the Center for Charter School Excellence

SHELDON SILVER WILL BE THERE IN SUPPORT OF NEST

WHERE: Outside at the Center for Charter School Excellence Leadership Summit, 111 Broadway, Trinty Center Building, between Pine and Cedar Streets

WHY: To accommodate the charter school's needs as “calculated” by Chancellor Klein and Garth Harries, NEST+m's high school would have to eliminate all honors, Regents, language and Advanced Placement classes, as well as electives and SAT prep, while seriously overloading its remaining classrooms. The college preparatory school's students would not be left with a skeletal program of core classes – rather they would be left lacking the courses required for admission to the sort of post-secondary schools for which they came to NEST+m to ready themselves. In other words, one can glean some disturbing specifics from Harries vague prescription – although it may sound like a formula for cooperation between two schools, it is actually a call for NEST+m to initially compromise and, as the charter school adds its secondary grades, surrender its purpose and perhaps its existence.

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