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[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] good evening. Welcome to the historical society. Im louise, the president seal. This evening i have the pleasure of interviewing Eva Moscowitz. Ceo of the Largest Charter School Network in new york. The Success Academy. Tonights program is part of the speaker series. I want to thank mr. Swartz for his great generosity and leadership which has enabled us to bring many prominent speakers to the stage. Our chairman emeritus was hoping to be with us this morning but his travel schedule conflicted with the programming. Im delighted that susan who has advised us i...

Asked to make a difference in the outcomes of our children. The Graduation Rate and the dropout rates. We were not able to make as deep of an impact as we are now because we have the center. And i just wanted to give some testimony to your comment or question, my son, marciano, who is in the audience, and he often gets the calendar of the month, places it on the refrigerator and thats his goto spot. What is going on today . Im there. Yesterday as we were sitting there in the center, we were talking about what the late mayor ed lee and how he supported us and just because he has that center, he...

Initial application dates was grandfathered to a lower transportation fund, and theyre paying the full transportation sustainable fee equivalent, and we at mta with our City Partners have agreed with these revenues along with the pier 70 development which has already been approved will be reinvested in this area as opposed to distributed citywide, and the reason we feel really comfortable doing this is this neighborhood and southern of this area are really aware where the majority of this effort is happening and do deserve concentrated investment. The kind of investments that youll see is buil...

Collaborations. I wanted to talk about a few things were doing in addition to our regular programming. We have implemented a number of the recommendations of the lgbt aging policy task force that came out, that is spearheaded by tom nolan, and its just really exciting to see these recommendations turn into programs. Weve talked about some of those at commission, but i wanted to mention that one of the things that weve done more recently is to start Training Staff and also training our cbo partners to collect Sexual Orientation and gender identity data in keeping with then senator weiners local...

A city that has no space for anyone. And yet our children make their way from all the schools to spend time together. To be supported. To know more than words. Theres genuine care. Were a family. Were relatives. Were healing with each other and that space allows us to do so. In terms of the space allowing the program to expand, four years ago there was no space. Four years ago, we were being asked to make a difference in the outcomes of our children. The Graduation Rate and the dropout rates. We were not able to make as deep of an impact as we are now because we have the center. And i just wan...