Parents protest potential charter expansion to UWS
The Success Academy Network, a well known charter school network that operates five schools across Harlem, has applied to open another location on the Upper West Side.
The charter school debate surfaced south of Harlem this week at a crowded Upper West Side Community Education Council meeting that felt more like a protest.
An auditorium at P.S. 145 on 105th Street was full for most of the meeting Wednesday night, which focused on a plan to potentially open a charter school within P.S. 145, also known as the Bloomingdale School.
The Success Academy Network, a well known charter school network that operates five schools across Harlem, has applied to open another location called Upper West Success Academy that could possibly share space in P.S. 145. The city Department of Education says that school is currently only at 59 percent capacity.
This potential location on the Upper West Side marks a shift in the charter school
