Shifting course, East Harlem nonprofit evicts charter school
One of the city’s oldest and highest-performing charter schools is being evicted by an unlikely landlord: the community organization that founded it.
Harbor Science and Arts Charter School, which opened in 2000, will have to find a new space in coming years after Boys & Girls Harbor, a 74-year old nonprofit that serves East Harlem youth, told the school’s board that it was ending an 11-year partnership.
The sudden news has jolted school administrators and unnerved families — and also illuminated a strange irony: While charter schools are sometimes criticized for disrupting other schools’ space, they too are at the