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Three New York City Middle Schools to Lengthen School Day for Students this School Year                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

District Partners with Citizen Schools to Add Hours and Spur Positive Academic Outcomes

New York, NY – September 8, 2010 – Citizen Schools, a national nonprofit that runs programs in New York City and eighteen other cities across the country, announced today that it will partner with Brooklyn School for Global Studies, Global Tech, and MS 331 to lengthen the school day by three hours each day this school year.  The longer school day will be implemented for all grade levels at Global Studies and Global Tech Prep and only the sixth grade at MS 331.  In addition, Citizen Schools will be launching their 8th Grade Academy program at two schools, working with fifteen to twenty eighth graders to prepare students for the transition from middle school to high school.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The longer school day and Citizen Schools partnership is part of school transformation efforts at all three schools.  MS 331 has been designated a SINI (school in need of improvement) school by the school district.  Brooklyn School for Global Studies was recently designated as a “persistently low-performing school” and received federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding to boost student achievement.  Read more…