Elysian Charter School

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Elysian Charter School (also known as ECS), is a public charter school located in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was founded in 1997 by a group of Hoboken residents including parents and educators (the Mile Square Families). After a charter was granted in January 1997, the school opened in September 1997. ^[1]. It is based on the Bank Street College of Education philosophy of learning ^[2]. Elysian's charter has been renewed twice by the New Jersey Department of Education, first in 2001 and again in December, 2005.

1 Buildings used by Elysian
2 Principals
3 Facts
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Buildings used by Elysian

Building(s)	Grades	Time used
Rue Building 4th floor (Only)	K-6 (originally K-2)	1999 - 2002
Rue Building 4th floor and the Hoboken Boys & Girls Club	K-4 (only Rue), 5 (only B&G), 6-7 (Rue and B&G)	2002 - 2003
Rue Building 4th floor and the OLG (Our Lady of Grace) Building 4th floor	K-2, 6-8 (Rue), 3-5 (OLG)	2003 - present

[edit] Principals

Lydia Becker was Director from 1997 to June 2005. Lydia Becker died on September 10, 2007 (the cause of her death was cancer). While a search was conducted for a permanent school leader, Melissa Landera and Joanna Weintraub were appointed as Interim Directors. In July, 2006, Carol Stock became the new school Director.

Principal	Time as principal
Lydia Becker	1997 - 2005
Joanna Weintraub and Melissa Landera	2005 - 2006
Carol Stock	2006 - present

[edit] Facts

There are two classes per grade.
Annual tuition is $0 per student.
Students at Elysian directly witnessed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, across the Hudson River.
The school's charter was once again renewed in 2005.
In 1997, the school only had grades K-2. Every year, a grade was added, until 2004, when the grade-adding stopped at K-8 (which is the way it is now).
Initially, students were able to take advantage of the school's inadequate structure; as a result, the school almost failed to renew its 2001 charter. In 2001, the school was referred to as a "playground".
Elysian Charter is one of only two charter schools in Hoboken; the other is Hoboken Charter School.
The school's "official" song is Weave,
Mustard Seed School held the Rue 4th floor before Elysian.
Unlike most schools, teachers are not called by "Mr." or "Ms."
The school's director of science is Michael Mooney^[3]. Being a geologist, he stated that what SIT was doing to create a building was hazardous because of asbestos. ^[4].
Chris Kang is the middle schools math teacher
The middle school is grades 7 and 8