Insight
March 8, 2010
Charter School Success in Harlem. Who’d Object? By Mark Perry
From the Wall Street Journal: Today there are 24 Harlem charter schools. They select students by lottery, and they educate about 7,700 of the community’s 50,000 school-age kids. Another 5,700 children matriculate at one of Harlem’s 30 private and parochial schools. “Harlem now has more school choice per square foot than any other place in the country,” says Eva Moskowitz, who operates four charters in Harlem. Read more here.