NYC goes over the million mark:
Some 74 new schools are making their debut, swelling the ranks of public schools to a record 1,408 to house more than 1.1 million students. A third of the new schools are small, themed public high schools carved out of Costco-sized failing ones. The Education Department is pairing the boutique schools with community groups and capping enrollment at 500 each."Let a thousand flowers bloom and we'll see what flourishes," said Clara Hemphill, who publishes school reviews for Insideschools.org.
The mayor has come under fire for setting up untested small schools at a lightning pace, but educrats insist they can't let teens wallow in big schools that have been dying for decades.
Amen to that. With that many students to experiment on, NYC's bound to find something that works well.
Posted by kswygert at September 8, 2005 09:15 PM