March 26, 2025
Dear Families,
This Friday, March 28, we have café comunitario.
Café comunitario is open to all CPE1 families. We have coffee and conversation about the topics families raise - just like our English-language community coffees. With café cominitario, the conversation is in Spanish - a language of the heart for many adults in our community.
Please join the conversation this Friday at 8:30.
Registering for Special Conference
You can resister now for May 10’s education conference at City College, In Defense of Childhood. This conference has been organized to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Central Park East, the Workshop Center for Open Education, and the future of progressive education.
Friday Deadline for Summer Rising
The deadline to apply for Summer Rising is this Friday, March 28.
For give more information about this summer program, I am re-writing here parts of a letter I sent earlier this month.
Students who are in grades K-8 this year can attend this free citywide program. Summer Rising has academics in the morning and camp-style activities in the afternoon. The academics begin at 8:00 a.m. Arts, sports, and play are scheduled from noon until 6:00.
For the past several years, our Summer Rising has been affiliated with PS 72, located on East 104 Street at Lexington Avenue. Most CPE1 students who attend Summer Rising go to PS 72. You also can list a different school (such as one closer to your job) as your top choice.
To apply for Summer Rising, go to www.myschools.nyc. (This is the same website where families apply for pre-K, kindergarten, and middle school.)
Once you log into the site, PS 72 will come up as your first option. You can apply there twice: once for the Children’s Aid Society afternoon program, and once for SACN-Harbor’s. You can search for other Summer Rising locations after that.
Summer Rising has limited seats, so you must apply by the deadline, March 28. (You can decline your seat in late spring if you decide not to use it.)