Tag: budget
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NYC eyes $17 million contract to create computer-based Specialized High School Admissions Test
This year’s eighth graders could be the last class that takes the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test with paper and pencil. A New York City education panel is slated to vote on a roughly $17 million contract later this month that would transition the test to a computer-based model. https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/10/17/nyc-specialized-high-school-admissions-test-shsat-could-go-digital/
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IBO: Eliminate “Specialized Academic” Bonus to 13 Screened and Specialized High Schools
Previously, the NYC Independent Budget Office (NYC IBO) noted that the NYC SHSAT Exam costs the city at least $8M per year in direct costs. This does not include proctors and other indirect yearly costs. Now, the independent department goes further to explain how the Specialized high schools are given an advantage over other public…
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Chancellor Carranza’s NYS 2021 Budget Comments on Repealing Hecht-Calandra
Chancellor Carranza gives the New York State Assembly and Senate a great summarized argument for repealing the Hecht-Calandra Act. Also at this hearing, Senator John Liu brought up the question of decertifying the 5 most recent SHSAT schools…
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NYC Will Spend $15 Million To Increase Diversity At Elite Public Schools
In 2014, Mayor de Blasio was among those calling for change: he said that “the specialized high schools are the jewels in the crown of our school system, but they don’t reflect this city,” and said that he would create a system “of multiple measures to actually understand who are the kids with the greatest…
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City Announces New Initiatives to Increase Diversity at Specialized High Schools
In 2016 Mayor de Blasio tried a variety of approaches to get more Black and Latinx students into specialized high schools. This included tutoring and outreach costing $15M over 5 years. None of these initiatives worked in the end. One reason for this is that city tutoring would end up competing with an increasingly aggressive…