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Article: Connecticut educators to open five charter schools in New York City.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 21, 2004
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By Joe Williams, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 21--An outfit founded by Yale Law School grads has been invited to open five charter schools in the city by 2006, Education Department officials said yesterday.
Achievement First will seek to duplicate the formula that bumped test scores at the middle school it runs in New Haven above local and Connecticut averages.
Doug McCurry, director of the nonprofit organization, said Amistad Academy in New Haven assesses student progress every six weeks, operates a 9-1/2-hour school day, recruits the best teachers and runs a "disciplined, achievement-oriented school ...