Principal
Wm O'Shea Middle School
January 1985 – July 1995 (10 years 7 months)
His daughter Eve is head of DREAM charter school a Harlem-based charter darling.
The
Center for Educational Innovation – Public Education Association
(CEI-PEA) is a New York City-based nonprofit organization that creates
successful public schools and educational programs. CEI-PEA’s staff of
experienced leaders in public education provides hands-on support to
improve the skills of teachers and school leaders, increase parent
involvement, and channel cultural and academic enrichment programs into
schools. CEI-PEA works with more than 220 public schools in
the New York City area, as well as schools in Baltimore, Boston,
Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Paterson (NJ), Philadelphia and
Washington, DC.
CEI-PEA
came about when two respected public education organizations merged in
2000 to build a broad capacity for public school reform. CEI was first
established in 1989 as a component of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and
aimed to transform public education by shifting accountability from
bureaucracies to schools as a means of creating public school choice for
communities. PEA was founded in 1895 and for over 100 years worked for
systemic and sustainable reform of the city’s public school system.
Together, the organizations’ histories mark some of the most important
milestones for advancing New York City’s public school system:
1896 – Created the “Tombs School,” the first school in New York City jails.
1956 – Produced a landmark study of segregation and inferior schooling for minority children.
1985 – Recognized by the White House for creating “schools that work.”
1994 – Became a founding partner in the Annenberg Challenge grant to create small public schools and networks among New York City schools.
2003 – Launched Project BOOST to
provide academic, social and cultural enrichment to under-achieving
fourth through eighth grade students with the ultimate goal of helping
them gain admission to quality high schools.
2004 –
Launched an initiative to develop public school choice programs in five
major cities across the United States through a multi-year grant from
the United States Department of Education.
2006 –
Launched new initiatives to help increase the number of quality
teachers in the public schools, increase the number of effective
principals by developing and mentoring assistant principals, and
establishing career technical education programs for the 21st century.
2010 - Number of schools selecting CEI-PEA as their Partnership Support Organization rises to 118, PICCS expands
to 13 new charter schools in New York City and Buffalo with $17.5
million in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants, and a national Network
of Independent Charter Schools is launched with a $2 million federal
grant.
2011 – Number of schools selecting CEI-PEA as their Partnership Support Organization rises to 147, which makes our PSO larger than a majority of urban public school systems.
Over the past decade, CEI-PEA has advanced school and system-level reforms, including:
- Selected by 147 public schools to serve as their Partnership Support Organization in
New York City’s new school system that allows principals to select
their preferred support organization from within or outside of the
school system.
- Awarded three Teacher Incentive Fund grants totaling almost $30 million to develop the Partnership for Innovation in Compensation for Charter Schools program with public charter schools in New York City and Buffalo.
- Launched the Network of Independent Charter Schools to
support teachers, administrators and charter school trustees develop
best practices and collaborate with one another and to help independent
“mom and pop” charter schools succeed.
- Restructured more than 45 large schools into sets of smaller learning communities to increase accountability and accelerate student achievement.
- Created and developed more than 40 public charter schools by helping schools with applications, renewals, Board development, facilities development, and resource development.
- Developed a network of more than 220 public schools to identify and adapt best practices through inter-visitations, study groups, peer workshops, and conferences.
- Launched Project BOOST,
a comprehensive after-school program that has led to increased
admissions of mid-level performing middle school students into quality
high schools.
- Partnered with four New York City middle schools to implement the ECASS: 21st Century Community Learning Centers. These Centers, which are funded through three-year 21st Century Community Learning Center grantsfrom
New York State, were established in 2008 and use an innovative plan to
accelerate students’ academic progress and youth development.
- Created an assistant principal leadership development program to train and develop assistant principals to better support curriculum and instruction in their schools.
- Led a national public school choice program funded
through a three-year grant from the United States Department of
Education and implemented in major cities in the northeast and midwest.
- Helped launch school reforms in Argentina, Chile, Israel and Great Britain that adapt best practices from CEI-PEA’s work wtih U.S. urban school systems.
- Established online resources and communications tools for public schools, including www.indiecharterschools.org, which delivers blogs, message boards, information hotline, a resource library and videos of promising practices for independent charter schools as well as any educator interested in leading-edge practices in public education.
CEI-PEA
is led by nationally-recognized educators who have all worked in public
school systems as teachers, principals, superintendents and central
administrators. CEI-PEA provides both direct technical assistance and
network-based assistance to help improve the skills of teachers and
school leaders, increase parent involvement, and channel cultural and
academic intervention programs into public schools.
Miracle in East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education
In
1973, Community School District 4 in East Harlem was, by many
parameters, the worst school district in New York City. Only 16% of the
students read at grade level, and truancy was rife. Fifteen years later,
63% of students were reading at grade level, and parents from outside
the district were enrolling their children in its schools. How a small
band of educators accomplished the feat--which garnered for one
principal a MacArthur prize--is exhaustively recounted by Fliegel, who
served as the first director of District Four's Office of Alternative
Schools, and MacGuire, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Among
the dramatis personae are a cavalcade of Board of Education figures,
including ex-school chancellor Anthony Alvarado and present chancellor
Joseph Fernandez. The authors present a depressing picture of Board of
Ed politics and bureaucracy. The key to District Four's success, we're
shown in this inspiring study, was the establishment of mini-schools
with specialized curriculums and allowing students to choose which
school to attend.
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