Geoffrey Canada announced Monday he will resign as chief executive officer of Harlem Children’s Zone, ending more than two decades as leader of a charter school network and non-profit that currently serves more than 12,300 children.
The school system, which prides itself on turning around the lives of disadvantaged students, boasts that 95% of its high school seniors are accepted into college.
“After 31 years, I am taking a new position in the organization, and I am no longer going to be CEO,” Canada told students, staff and community leaders inside the HCZ Promise Academy, a $100-million school that opened last year in the middle of the St. Nicholas Houses on W. 129th St. He had been the CEO since 1990.
