The Hyde Leadership Charter School is a new school that opened earlier this year. It serves significantly disadvantaged children in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. It accepts all interested students at no cost.

The Hyde Foundation’s primary philosophy is that each individual student is gifted with a unique potential that defines a destiny. With many years of experience operating a successful public charter school in the Washington DC area, Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx will offer its students a character-based curriculum that stresses a student-parent-teacher partnership, a family-school bond and rigorous academics aimed at laying the foundation for each student’s success in college and fulfillment in life.

The Hyde Leadership Charter School will offer an after-school music program to students 3-days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) 4:00-6:00PM. The program will be offered October to June and will expand each school year as the school grows.

This program, offered in partnership with Roberta Flack, is called “The Roberta Flack School of Music”. Roberta is a strong believer in inspiration as a catalyst for learning, and wants to offer the opportunity for young people to experience the magic and creativity that music can offer.

The Roberta Flack School of Music is funded entirely by private donation. Our fundraising goal to launch this music program and develop it for the next 5 years is $500,000.

If you wish to make a donation to the Roberta Flack School of Music, please make it payable to Hyde Leadership Charter School (for the Roberta Flack School of Music), and send it to:

Hyde Leadership Charter School
Attention: Joanne Goubourn
730 Bryant Avenue
Bronx, NY 10474

Any questions or inquiries, call Joanne Goubourn at 718-991-5500

Mission Statement:
At the Roberta Flack School of Music, children who demonstrate a strong interest in studying music are educated and encouraged to master fundamental principles of music, and in turn are taught to read, and write music. They are taught to listen to and to really "hear" music. In addition, given the exposure to these elements, there is an opportunity to utilize music as a means of augmenting a strong academic education. The program is designed to enable the school's administrators and teachers to recognize and foster the development of music skills of children who are especially gifted.