School Rebel Probe

This is turning into the mother of all battles -- and I'm glad the DOE isn't backing down or this sort of nonsense will become common and paralyze the ability to the DOE to manage its space and help charters get going.

Fed up with resistance to its plan to place a charter school in a building that houses gifted public school students in Manhattan, the city Education Department moved yesterday to have the principal leading the revolt investigated for misconduct.

 

In a document obtained by The Post, the department accused the principal of New Explorations Into Science, Technology and Math School of fudging enrollment figures in an effort to keep the Lower East Side building solely for her school.

 

NEST's principal, Celenia Chevere, was so intent on blocking the charter, according to the document, that she shuffled students from room to room to convince department inspectors that there was no space for another school.  

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The New York Post

SCHOOL REBEL PROBE

By DAVID ANDREATTA

April 11, 2006 – EXCLUSIVE

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/66802.htm