Harlem Link Charter was founded by husband-wife team, Margaret Ryan and Steven Evangelista, who both started their teaching careers in the New York City public schools as members of Teach for America, a respected not-for-profit that recruits top college graduates to teach in low-income schools. The school opened in September 2005 after Ryan and Evangelista completed a year-long fellowship with Building Excellent Schools, an organization dedicated to training founders of new urban charter schools. Housed in a well-maintained public school building situated on a quiet street in West Harlem, the school shares its facilities with Future Leaders Institute (another charter school) and PS 242, the Gwendolyn Brown Computer School. Ryan and Evangelista serve as the Harlem Link's co-directorsfor instruction and operations respectively.

This school recently received an F grade on the most recent school progress report. This was the first year that their students took the state tests and the children did not do well. I also... read more