The academy's size is a result of the contrasting circumstances its three constituent schools found themselves in.
The constituent schools are: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the Central School of Ballet, The Circus Space, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, London Contemporary Dance School, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
In November, Zachary Reed, who represents the ward near Slavic Village, received a pleading phone call from Cecilia Cooper-Hardy, a constituent and school-bus driver who lives next to a vacant house.
The formula was typed on the paint-spattered keyboard of a Gennex Fluid Management tinter, which then squirted the constituent colors — school-bus yellow, dark green, and black — into a can of oil-based white paint.
Every few yards, he sees someone he wants to talk to: the head of the local redevelopment authority, then the guy who dresses up as the Revolutionary War figure at South Boston's Fort Independence, and then a stream of constituents, grammar-school classmates, business associates, friends.
But black children have been major constituents of charter schools since their creation two decades ago.
Some schools in constituent colleges, such as the Birkbeck School of Computer Science and Information Systems (until 2010), and the School of Advanced Study (the UK's national centre for the facilitation and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences) are or were based in Senate House.
But Barbara Bollier, the district's moderate Republican representative, opposed it, saying most of her constituents worry more about schools.
Then she began receiving calls from constituents who complained that schools had encouraged them to put their children on drugs, even, in some cases, making it a condition of attending class or after-school.
Clemens arrived here Saturday morning to address his most stalwart constituents: the high school baseball coaches of his adopted home state.
Critics of the boards say they are too often manipulated by elected officials who need them to do favors for their constituents in the school, if not find patronage jobs for them.
