The leader of one of New York’s most elite private schools has left his post after an academic year marked by infighting among parents, students, faculty and alumni over the war in Gaza. Joe Algrant stepped down on Thursday as the head of school at Ethical Culture Fieldston School after a two-year tenure, “to pursue other personal and professional goals and opportunities,” according to an email sent to the school community by the Fieldston board of trustees. This spring, Fieldston was torn apart by pro-Palestinian student activism, including graffiti on the high school that drew widespread public attention. The friction at Fieldston was mirrored at private schools across the city. Mr. Algrant’s departure comes less that two months after the board of the Collegiate School, another elite private school in New York, announced that its head of school would depart, after an internal report found “disquieting problems of religious and cultural bias” at the school.

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Persons: Joe Algrant, “, Algrant, ”, Fieldston, Algrant’s Organizations: Culture Fieldston, Collegiate School Locations: Gaza, New York