Hyerdahl3 wrote:
> Another all-girls public school for New York City!
>
> NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)----The people who founded the first
all-girls public
> school in New York City nearly ten years ago announced plans for
their third
> all-girl's school. The Young Women's Leadership Foundation, Mayor
Michael
> Bloomberg, and NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced the plans
to open
> "The Young Women's Leadership School, Queens Campus" at a press
conference this
> morning.
>
> The school is a replication of the highly successful Young Women's
Leadership
> School of East Harlem, which opened nearly ten years ago and serves
grades
> 7-12. Last fall, that school was replicated when The Young Women's
Leadership
> Foundation opened the city's second all-girls school in the Bronx.
The Bronx
> Campus of The Young Women's Leadership School is running successfully
and is in
> high demand.
>
> In September, TYWLS, Queens Campus will open with 75 students in the
seventh
> grade. Over the next six years this school will serve 450 girls in
grades 7-12.
> The school will provide a complete college preparatory curriculum
enabling the
> girls to become leaders in school and in their communities. None of
The Young
> Women's Leadership Schools are gifted programs, however, the culture
and
> expectation is that all graduates of TYWLS will attend and graduate
from
> college.
>
> YWL Foundation will partner with the Principal and teachers of TYWLS,
Queens
> Campus to enhance the educational experience of students and staff.
The Young
> Women's Leadership Foundation staff will support partnerships to
provide
> students with after school and summer programs. Young Women's
Leadership
> Foundation also has schools in Philadelphia and Chicago and TYWLS,
Queens
> Campus students and staff will participate in conferences and student
exchanges
> with their sisters across the city and the country.
>
> Ann Rubenstein Tisch is the President of The Young Women's Leadership
> Foundation. She was instrumental in starting the national single-sex
public
> school movement, when she opened the East Harlem school nearly ten
years ago.
> Tisch said today, "We are excited to offer even more NYC girls the
choice of a
> top quality, college-prep, single-sex environment and we are pleased
to partner
> once again with the DOE on what we know will be our third successful
NYC public
> school."
>
> YWL Foundation Maureen Grogan, 212-521-2897 mgrogan{at}ywlfoundation.org
>
>
> 02/01/2005 11:00 ET
>
> =A9 Business Wire 2003


So this is good, and the Virginia Military Academy (once an all boys
school) was bad?
I'd call you a hypocrite, but....nah, no "buts", you're a hypocrite.



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