Academic Leadership Charter School  District: CSD 7 Authorizer:
NYC Chancellor ALCS’ mission is to cultivate America’s future
leaders. Through a rigorous academic program that emphasizes
reading and writing across the curriculum, we provide our
students with the critical thinking skills required for academic
and professional success.  ALCS offers an extended day (7:45am
to 4pm) and year (196 days) program to provide our students with
additional opportunities to excel academically. Each day, ALCS
devotes four periods to literacy, two periods to mathematics,
and one period each to science and social studies instruction to
maximize learning in the four major disciplines. Teachers
collaborate to create interdisciplinary unit plans that
incorporate New York State’s eleven learning standard areas.
Character education is central to our program design as we
strive to instill academic achievement, leadership and character
as the formula for success in our student body.  Each classroom
has a head teacher and a cooperat