DOE must do more to prepare NYC high school graduates: Comptroller

Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.says the city’s Education Department must do more to prepare its students for life after high school.

The audit found that different districts produced a range of results anywhere from 9% of students in Harlem’s District 4 not graduating to 49% of students in Brownsville’s District 23. And while 63% of the surveyed students graduated and enrolled in college, 38% of those students did not stay enrolled for at least six months, the audit said.

The audit compared education backgrounds using a random sample of 291 students and found nearly half of them were not college-ready by the Education Department’s own standards. This included 75 students who didn’t graduate high school on time, and 56 students who did not meet proficiency standards. DiNapoli said that most of the students who were found unprepared for college had one common thread: they had low standardized test scores for English and math.

“I worry about rushing kids out of high school just to clear the decks…being moved along with empty credentials,” said Bloomfield, who teaches education leadership, law and policy. “It's not clear that taking more time to graduate means you are less capable than if you graduated on time. It may be costly because they’ve got more kids in school, but you know, that's more a budget and a staffing issue and a capacity issue than it is an educational [one].

Aren't parents supposed to do that

How about the fact that college is not for everyone and a trade can make you a great living? They slam college down everyone’s throat and it is truly not for everyone. Prepare them for the fact that they have other choices.

Uh huh. See, here in America we feel challenged by that sort of statistic, enquiring, like Tee Higgins--not looking for handouts and help.

How about just giving kids school choice? Why don't Democrats want that for poor, black and hispanic families? The answer is they will lose control over them.

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