Mark Stanek, head of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School since 2008, announced today that he will be leaving at the end of his current contract. In the next academic year he’ll be director of Shady Hill, a small private elementary (pre-k through 8th grade) school in Cambridge, reports The Read More
The opening of the Greenwich Village High School, originally scheduled for September 2009, has been pushed back a year.* The private school backed by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, deputy editor Aimee Bell, actor John Leguizamo, and New School president Bob Kerrey has abruptly lost some of its A-list funding, according to the Read More
It seems that Aimee Bell and her well-connected friends at Greenwich Village High School aren’t the only ones trying to bring an alternative form of schooling to New York’s privileged children.
Sunday’s Page Six Magazine introduced the world to Melissa Meyer and Teri Flemal. Along with her husband, a band manager Read More
New York’s eighth graders have just over a week left to apply to Greenwich Village High School’s inaugural class.
In September, when we checked up on the school—whose famous backers include Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and deputy editor Aimee Bell, actor John Leguizamo, New School president Bob Kerrey and his wife, Read More
According to New York Magazine, Manhattan families are pulling their kids out of private schools in a panic about the recession.
An unnamed source "close" to the Trinity School said that 45 families have already announced that their children won’t be returning next year, while parents at both Trinity and Horace Read More
When Daily Transom first broke the story about the opening of Greenwich Village High School—a new private school founded by Vanity Fair deputy editor, Aimee Bell—little information was available other than an earnest slogan: "Work Hard, Be Kind, Take Risks."
But in today’s Times piece about the high school, we Read More
Waverly Inn turns out to have been only the first salvo in Vanity Fair staffers’ heretofore successful effort to colonize the West Village. In this month’s issue, Vanity Fair‘s Aimee Bell‘s bio reads: "Occupation: Deputy editor, Vanity Fair; co-founder, Greenwich Village High School… Causes: Greenwich Village High School (gvhsnyc.org), the Food Bank for New York Read More
