Bright classrooms, a brand-new gym and more space for students to learn and grow are now part of the educational landscape in Tremont.<\/p>\n
The new Zeta Bronx Tremont Park Upper Elementary and Middle School campus has officially opened its doors, giving local families access to a modern learning environment close to home.<\/p>\n
For parent Dr. Isabel Ventura, the new facility sends a powerful message to students.<\/p>\n
“It makes a difference for the children to see the love in the actual structure of the building,” Ventura said.<\/p>\n
The tuition-free charter school offers daily science instruction along with art, music, chess and sports programs. School leaders say the goal is to provide a well-rounded education that supports students both inside and outside the classroom.<\/p>\n
“Besides rigorous academics, we also make sure that we are honing in on social and emotional development for our students,” said Noreen Cooke Coleman, a faculty member at Zeta Charter School.<\/p>\n
The new campus also has special meaning for fifth-grade teacher Albert Dominguez, who grew up just minutes away.<\/p>\n
“Teaching students here is a blessing because I grew up here in the Bronx, five minutes away,” Dominguez said.<\/p>\n
Families in the community say the new school represents an opportunity for children to access additional resources without having to leave their neighborhood.<\/p>\n
“It’s not about, ‘Oh, just because you’re from the Bronx.’ No, the Bronx has amazing, amazing places where kids can be better for tomorrow,” Ventura said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bright classrooms, a brand-new gym and more space for students to learn and grow are now part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-377751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}