by Anelfi Maria | Jun 13, 2022 | Viewpoints
“It wasn’t until high school, after changing high schools three times, that I ended up at City-As-School, a transfer or alternative school in New York City. City-As-School’s welcoming environment allowed me to have a place to heal. I was finally met with...
by Savanna Honerkamp-Smith | Feb 4, 2021 | Viewpoints
“My last school, it was about 4,000 kids. I had no relationships with my teachers; matter of fact, the school was so big that when I was absent for so long no one even noticed,” recounted transfer school student Joshua Applewhite at an online panel last December. “So...
by Savanna Honerkamp-Smith | Oct 23, 2020 | Viewpoints
Over the past two weeks, hundreds of people came out to fight for Learning to Work (LTW), one of the most successful programs for re-engaging high schoolers who have dropped out or fallen behind. At Eskolta we know firsthand how important LTW is in removing barriers...
by Savanna Honerkamp-Smith | Jun 3, 2020 | Viewpoints
Over the past few weeks and months, we have watched the tragedy of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and George Floyd be compounded by white supremacy in our institutions—police, district attorneys, courts—which have sought to...
by Eskolta News Team | Sep 13, 2019 | Viewpoints
I have walked into hundreds of classrooms in the last two decades. Picture two of them. In one, let’s call it the Interactive Classroom, the teacher moderates a student debate on whether it’s ethical to use DNA tests in family planning. In another, let’s call it the...
by Eskolta News Team | Mar 11, 2019 | Viewpoints
Six weeks ago, New York State identified one out of every four New York City transfer schools for Comprehensive School Improvement, a designation for struggling schools that requires them to implement a change plan to reach certain benchmarks. But the accountability...
