Chalkbeat | Can keeping students longer help them thrive? A charter school explains why it’s adding grades

The New York Foundling’s charter school Mott Haven Academy in the South Bronx is beginning its middle school expansion in fall 2017. “The idea, explained the Foundling’s president and CEO Bill Baccaglini, grew out of wanting to keep existing students in a stable environment for as long as possible,” Chalkbeat reports. READ MORE