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iZone Academy, scheduled to launch in 2014, will hold classes in the offices of New York tech businesses.
Education officials aim to open a New York City high school in 2014 that will share space with local startups working in the tech sector, planning documents show.
Instead of a traditional school building, classes for the iZone Academy will take place in the offices of small businesses in a new model first reported Wednesday by the education blog Gothamschools.org.
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Neighborhood residents wave flags and take snapshots Friday as President Barack Obama’s motorcade leaves following his visit to the Pathways in Technology Early College High School in Brooklyn. P-TECH designed its curriculum with IBM.
An education nonprofit funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called Next Generation Learning has donated $ 100,000 to help to pay for the new school, which will enroll 400 students at full capacity.
The futuristic school “has the potential to disrupt the systemic structures of age-based cohorts, scheduling, space, grading policies and more,” according to the nonprofit’s grant announcement for the project.
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Bill Gates’ foundation funds Next Generation Learning, which has donated $ 10,000 to iZone Academy, a New York City school slated to open in 2014.
Education officials wouldn’t give any details, including location, about the new school, but said more information on the program will be made public in the coming weeks.
More city schools have established partnerships with private companies in recent years.
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Pathways in Technology Early College High School in Brooklyn designed its curriculum with IBM when it opened in 2011. President Barack Obama visited P-TECH on Friday and praised the school.
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