MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWS

Nearly two decades after International Leadership Charter High School opened, the school has initiated its plan to open a middle school.

“From the school’s perspective, the reason to do the project is to tie something into their high school,” said Alex Weis, principal of Matter Real Estate, a firm that represents the school. “The middle school needed a home, and there was a need for space for it.”

The groundbreaking of their state-of-the-art building, which took place Oct 19, starts a process where the new school expects to open its doors at 306 W. 232nd St., in 2024.

“Designing the new middle school has been a labor of love, from inception to its fruition today,” said developer Panstar Realty president Tzu-Ben Chen.
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OTHER NEWS

There was no truth to Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz’s statements about the assistant principal of P.S. 24 Spuyten Duyvil some eight years ago. That’s according to a Jan. 27 ruling from a state supreme court judge in Manhattan.

Dinowitz’s claims Manuele Verdi was responsible for the school losing annex space at The Whitehall exposed the now-retired school administrator to ridicule and public contempt, — key elements of a defamation claim, Judge Lynn Kotler added. However, she stopped short of whether the Assemblyman’s claims were delivered with actual malice.
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