The Bronx's education system is a prime example of successful transformation in a large-scale public institution. A unique combination of organizations and individuals, both inside and outside the public education system, have completely altered the landscape of secondary education in New York. This stands in stark contrast to the misguided belief that district officials, working from the central office and away from everyday educational issues, can design policies to improve underperforming schools. This approach has failed before and failed during the de Blasio era.
Generally speaking, there are two main systems for dividing the Bronx into regions, which often conflict with each other. Last Bronx, a 1996 Sega game that took advantage of the Bronx's bad reputation to give its name to an alternative version of Tokyo after the Japanese bubble, where crime and gang warfare are rampant. The Bronx has also been home to many influential figures, such as Arthur Avilés and Charles Rice-Gonzalez, who founded the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in 1998. This organization provides dance, theater, and art workshops, festivals, and performances that focus on contemporary and modern art in relation to race, gender, and sexuality. Since the consolidation of New York City in 1898, the Constitution of New York City has governed the Bronx. This document establishes a strong system of mayors and councils.
New York City has an official television station run by NYC Media and which broadcasts from Bronx Community College. Cablevision also directs News 12 The Bronx, which broadcasts programs based in the Bronx. At the heart of Klein's vision was the idea that New York should not strive for a great school system, but rather a system of great schools led by talented and empowered educators. To that end, it brought more than 100 charter schools to New York, and at least 100 more were still on the way. These schools were deliberately concentrated in high-poverty areas such as Harlem and the South Bronx to create competition for existing public schools. But looking at Saquan, it's just as hard to ignore the reality that poverty is an insurmountable obstacle on the path to improving public education.
Simons had long presented himself as a kind of savior of education, but his air of extra-professional intensity had begun to fade on the board of directors. The number, locations, and boundaries of Bronx neighborhoods (many of them located on 19th-century village sites) have become unclear over time and successive waves of newcomers. The western parts of the Bronx are more mountainous and are dominated by a series of parallel ridges that run from south to north. At the end of World War I, the Bronx hosted the very small 1918 World's Fair on 177th Street and DeVoe Avenue.
