SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS
Vincent Moorehead , Senior Director of Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain at Success Academy Charter Schools , discusses his organisation ’ s transformation journey in New York City
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Success Academy Charter Schools is the largest and highest-performing free public charter school network in New York State . It ’ s the size of the seventh largest school district in the state .
Founded in Harlem in 2006 by former New York City Council Member Eva Moskowitz , the organisation now operates 45 schools , enrolling 18,000 students in grades K-12 , most of them low-income children of colour , in Manhattan , Brooklyn , Queens , and the Bronx . In a city where only one in three children of colour can read or do math at grade level , Success Academy ’ s scholars have excelled . On the most recent state exams , 99 % of Success students passed mathematics and 90 % passed English Language Arts . With ambitions to operate 100 schools and enroll 50,000 students over the next decade , Success Academy is driven to innovate in the realm of pedagogy as well as procurement .
MARCH 2020