Chancellor Carranza, Sen. Montgomery Commit to Helping Improve Historic Bed-Stuy High School

Originally published in BKReader

Boys and Girls High School Campus welcomes Chancellor Carranza. (ll to r): Tabari Bomani, Principal of Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice, Allison Farrington, Principal of Research and Service HS, Twila Evanson, Regent Lester Young, Dr. Albert Vann, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Executive Superintended Karen Watts, Chancellor Richard Carranza, Grecian Harrison, Principal of Boys and Girls High School, Stefani Zinerman, Brooklyn HS Superintendent Janice Ross

Last week, Senator Velmanette Montgomery welcomed Chancellor Richard Carranza back to Bedford Stuyvesant to meet with the principals and students of Boys and Girls High School Campus and discuss their needs.

Once nicknamed the “pride and joy of Bed-Stuy,” Boys and Girls High School, located at 1700 Fulton Street, struggled in the last decade with an image tarnished by academic underperformance, high principal turnover and low enrollment.

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