Corporations Keep Giving to Harlem Public Schools | The Uptowner: For the last two years, Zeimer has been principal of Harlem Renaissance, a school not only in the midst of its own renaissance – the graduation rate jumped from 17 percent to 39.9 percent in just one year – but also one looking to harness the benefits of working with the private sector. And in Harlem, it’s not the only one.
Despite the economic malaise, Michael Haberman, the president of PENCIL, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve student achievement in public schools by linking business leaders with educators, says that more and more private sector firms want to form relationships with some of the city’s most disadvantaged schools.
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