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Students at the Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy charter school will have access to college courses taught by Bard College professors.
A Bronx charter school is now offering up to a year’s worth of college credit without making parents pay a dime in tuition.
The Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy will partner with Bard College to create the advanced credit program — and it’ll be housed inside the charter school itself.
Students who get into the program after a rigorous application and essay will be able to take undergraduate classes from college professors, earning credits in the process right there on E. 125th St.
“Students are definitely open to the challenge. They feel the pressure, but they are excited about it,” said Marquitta Speller, principal of the Promise Academy High School.
The Bard courses will emphasize liberal arts and science.
Bard College has already set up entire schools in Manhattan and Queens over the last decade. Alexandra Contreras, who’s son Xavier, 19, graduated from the Queens school in 2012, said her son’s education was ideal.
“It is the type of school I would recommend for anyone,” Contreras said. “The school is very well rounded academically. The teachers work very closely to make sure the students succeed.”
Contreras believes that the opportunity the Bard School provided allowed her son to get into Carnegie Mellon University, an elite college.
“Xavier was really able to grow because of his experience at the school. It was a very positive experience. Because of the Bard school, he was able to attend one of the top tier schools in the country.”
The difference, of course, is now that level of education will be delivered directly inside the Promise Academy campus.
“Parents are excited by the prospect of their students receiving an early college education and being exposed to this type of curriculum as early as ninth and 10th grade,” Speller said.
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