Posted on August 9, 2017

To support expanded staffing for their Elementary School Integrated Co-Teaching (“ICT”) Expansion. In an ICT environment, students with Individualized Education Plans (“IEPs”) learn alongside their general education peers in classrooms that promote inclusion, diversity, and address all learners’ needs. By hiring three additional special education teachers across their first, second, and third grades in 2016-2017, and by hiring two additional special education teachers in 2017-2018, 72 special needs elementary students will receive targeted intervention on a daily basis to help them achieve meaningful annual growth. Additionally, the expanded teacher teams in each grade will benefit over 300 Hyde elementary school students. Hyde Leadership Charter School is a public K-12 school serving 945 children hailing from some 22 zip codes from their school’s two locations in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx.