Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Party On, Garth
Things are getting even more bizarre at Lower Manhattan's NEST+M, an elite public school for white kids that is doing everything it can to keep the Ross Global Academy Charter School from sharing its underutilized space. (The Chalkboard wrote about it last week here.) NY Post's David Andreatta reports this morning that the school's principal, Celenia Chevere, may be under investigation for fudging enrollment figures. Get this: she allegedly shuffled students from room to room to make it look like they were using more space.
Garth Harries, of NYCDOE's Office of New Schools, outlined the allegations in a letter to NEST parents, including his request for an investigation by Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon.
Chevere's response: "This person Garth is not even qualified to clean my toilet." Ouch. Party on, Wayne.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) may be correct in his previous remarks that there is a private school trying to use public space in this case, but he seems to have mixed up which one is public (Ross) and which one is acting private (NEST+M.) Someone should look into that.
Garth Harries, of NYCDOE's Office of New Schools, outlined the allegations in a letter to NEST parents, including his request for an investigation by Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon.
Chevere's response: "This person Garth is not even qualified to clean my toilet." Ouch. Party on, Wayne.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) may be correct in his previous remarks that there is a private school trying to use public space in this case, but he seems to have mixed up which one is public (Ross) and which one is acting private (NEST+M.) Someone should look into that.
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