National Town Hall on Ed Reform

HCZ's Geoffrey Canada was part of a national town hall on education held in Washington, D.C., joining New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Senator Michael Bennet, Congressman George Miller and Deputy Secretary of Education Anthony Miller and moderator Jessica Yellin of CNN. The panel discussion begins at about the 15:00 mark.

Geoffrey Canada named to TIME 100

HCZ's Geoffrey Canada was named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The magazine has an article written by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and its website has the video below about our work.

New school building and community center

HCZ held a groundbreaking for its new $100-million school building and community center in St. Nicholas Houses. Read the press release.

For more information, go to our St. Nicholas School page.

At the April 6th groundbreaking ceremony: NYC Housing Authority Chairman John Rhea, HCZ Board Chairman Stanley Druckenmiller, former NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, Goldman Sachs President and COO Gary Cohn, two Promise Academy students, HCZ President Geoffrey Canada and Promise Academy Chairman Kenneth Langone.

Click below to watch the video: NYC Breaks Ground on Charter School in Harlem from MyFoxNY.com.

For the NY1 story on the groundbreaking, click here.

MSNBC Panel on Education Reform

HCZ's Geoffrey Canada joined Starbucks President/CEO Howard Schultz, AFT President Randi Weingarten, Tom Brokaw on MSNBC's Morning Joe program to discuss education reform

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