New East Harlem charter school Renaissance offers clean slate for its students
Sunday, September 12th 2010, 4:00 AM
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Art Samuels gets learning process going at Renaissance's first college prep class.This is the third in an occasional series about the opening of the first charter high school in East Harlem.
At his old, failing junior high school, Michael Delvalle was late so many times that he racked up the equivalent of 42 absences.
But on the first day of classes at his new school - Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation - the 15-year-old arrived two hours before the doors even opened.
"I wanted a fresh start," said Michael, a special education student from Junior High School 13, which later closed.
He wasn't the only one offered a clean slate on Day One at Renaissance.
One girl was walking into a public school building for the first time in two years after her
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