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The Julia Richman Education Complex (JREC) is an educational multiplex located in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Named after the district superintendent of schools, Julia Richman , it houses six autonomous small schools for approximately 1,800 Pre-K through 12th grade students in the former building of Julia ...
In 1995, Julia Richman High School graduated its last class, creating space for smaller schools to occupy the newly renamed Julia Richman Education Complex (JREC -- pronounced "jay-rec"). Under a memorandum of understanding with the City, Urban Academy became the lead school in the new complex.
Julia Richman (1855-1912) was the first woman district superintendent of schools in the City of New York. Her innovations, leadership and curriculum brought an entire new dimension to public school education at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Sep 19, 2016 · When the Gates Foundation announced in 2003 that it was devoting $51.2 million to starting 67 small high schools in New York City, it cited the Julia Richman Education Complex as “one of the most successful high school turnaround stories in the country.”
In an astonishing act of betrayal and arrogance, Hunter College and the Department of Education have developed plans to demolish the 80 year old restored Julia Richman Education Complex and to replace it with a high rise building housing science labs.
The complex known today as the Julia Richman Education Complex was built in 1923 as an all-girls commercial high school. The school's massive five-story, U-shaped building and annex take up an entire city block between First and Second Avenues.
Nov 23, 2011 · Described as "the best example in the United States of a multiplex," the Julia Richman Education Complex (JREC) was once an academically failing, physically unsafe, graffiti-ridden school of 2,600 that graduated only a third of its students.
