An admittedly biased study done by the pro-charter group, Families For Excellent Schools. have shown that the Renewal Schools have continued to under preform, despite the massive amount of money that went to the schools. Moreover, these schools continue to shed students and excess teachers. Finally, the Renewal Schools have a problem with chronic absenteeism and low student academic achievement.
The DOE tried to limit the influx of "high needs" students by eliminating acceptance of "over-the-counter" students to the Renewal Schools. However, these schools could not attract academically proficient students either. The result was that the Renewal High Schools continued to struggle academically and had trouble keeping students from fleeing the schools, when given the chance to leave.
To make matters worse, veteran teachers, the lifeblood of a properly functioning school, didn't want to work in the highly stressful environment of the Renewal School. despite what Chancellor Carmen Farina claims. The result is that the Renewal High Schools have a majority of inexperienced teachers who are subject to a steep learning curve to master classroom management and curriculum knowledge, not an optimal educational environment for a struggling student population. Furthermore, the Renewal High Schools suffer from high teacher turnover, either because the teachers are excessed or use the Open Market Transfer System to escape the school. This makes the Renewal High Schools an unstable educational environment and hurts students academic achievement.
Adding to the already stressful educational environment, the Renewal High Schools are top heavy with both in school and outside administrators, In fact, the administration of Amiee Horowitz is known to be the dumping grounds for failing or unwanted principals and other out of favor administrators. This top-heavy and highly paid administrators gobble up the lion's share of the extra funding for the Renewal School program.
The Renewal High Schools have only met 24 of the 102 benchmarks set for them and had a chronic absenteeism rate of 44%, almost half of the students. Finally, most Renewal High Schools had a "college and career readiness rate" of the teens or less and are considered "diploma mills", graduating students unprepared for college and careers. Check out the two charts below and the problems stare you in the face.
Renewal
High School
|
Enrollment
|
Students
Chronically Absent
|
Academy
of Urban Planning
|
227
|
49%
|
Long
Island City High School
|
2077
|
44%
|
John
Adams High School
|
2386
|
43%
|
Richmond
Hill High School
|
1950
|
38%
|
August
Martin High School
|
459
|
51%
|
Martin
Van Buren High School
|
1544
|
41%
|
Flushing
High School
|
1812
|
39%
|
Pan
American International High School
|
380
|
26%
|
Brooklyn
Collegiate: A College Board School
|
307
|
40%
|
Cypress
Hills Collegiate Preparatory School
|
232
|
42%
|
Multicultural
High School
|
208
|
36%
|
Brooklyn
Generation School
|
234
|
23%
|
Frederick
Douglass Academy IV Secondary School
|
77
|
49%
|
Boys
and Girls High School
|
383
|
43%
|
Automotive
High School
|
372
|
60%
|
Foundations
Academy
|
73
|
70%
|
Juan
Morel Campos Secondary School
|
622
|
38%
|
Peace
and Diversity Academy
|
125
|
73%
|
Monroe
Academy for Visual Arts & Design
|
416
|
64%
|
DeWitt
Clinton High School
|
1694
|
45%
|
Fordham
Leadership Academy for Business and Techno
|
410
|
45%
|
DreamYard
Preparatory School
|
294
|
43%
|
Leadership
Institute
|
180
|
53%
|
Bronx
High School of Business
|
309
|
46%
|
Bronx
Collegiate Academy
|
395
|
45%
|
Herbert
H. Lehman High School
|
1092
|
50%
|
Holcombe
L. Rucker School of Community Research
|
193
|
52%
|
Banana
Kelly High School
|
234
|
60%
|
Foreign
Language Academy of Global Studies
|
105
|
51%
|
New
Explorers High School
|
426
|
60%
|
High
School for Health Careers and Sciences
|
526
|
39%
|
Coalition
School for Social Change
|
232
|
53%
|
Wadleigh
Secondary School for the Performing & Vis
|
377
|
59%
|
Henry
Street School for International Studies
|
185
|
52%
|
All
Renewal Schools
|
20,536
|
44.45%
|
Renewal
High School
|
4-Year
College Readiness Index
|
||
2015
|
2016
|
+/-
|
|
Academy
of Urban Planning
|
19%
|
11%
|
-8%
|
Long
Island City High School
|
23%
|
25%
|
2%
|
John Adams High School
|
20%
|
22%
|
2%
|
Richmond
Hill High School
|
16%
|
22%
|
6%
|
August
Martin High School
|
2%
|
7%
|
5%
|
Martin
Van Buren High School
|
14%
|
18%
|
4%
|
Flushing
High School
|
21%
|
18%
|
-3%
|
Pan
American International High School
|
52%[6]
|
38%
|
-13%
|
Brooklyn
Collegiate: A College Board School
|
18%
|
16%
|
-3%
|
Cypress
Hills Collegiate Preparatory School
|
10%
|
11%
|
1%
|
Multicultural
High School
|
3%
|
11%
|
8%
|
Brooklyn
Generation School
|
17%
|
16%
|
-1%
|
Frederick
Douglass Academy IV Secondary School
|
11%
|
11%
|
0%
|
Boys
and Girls High School
|
10%
|
7%
|
-3%
|
Automotive
High School
|
3%
|
4%
|
1%
|
Foundations
Academy
|
5%
|
14%
|
8%
|
Juan
Morel Campos Secondary School
|
7%
|
3%
|
-4%
|
Peace
and Diversity Academy
|
3%
|
11%
|
7%
|
Monroe
Academy for Visual Arts & Design
|
5%
|
6%
|
2%
|
DeWitt
Clinton High School
|
19%
|
19%
|
0%
|
Fordham
Leadership Academy for Business and Technology
|
6%
|
6%
|
0%
|
DreamYard
Preparatory School
|
3%
|
10%
|
7%
|
Leadership
Institute
|
4%
|
2%
|
-2%
|
Bronx
High School of Business
|
19%
|
15%
|
-5%
|
Bronx
Collegiate Academy
|
12%
|
14%
|
2%
|
Herbert
H. Lehman High School
|
11%
|
21%
|
10%
|
Holcombe
L. Rucker School of Community Research
|
27%
|
6%
|
-21%
|
Banana
Kelly High School
|
17%
|
7%
|
-10%
|
Foreign
Language Academy of Global Studies
|
2%
|
14%
|
12%
|
New
Explorers High School
|
20%
|
6%
|
-15%
|
High
School for Health Careersand Sciences
|
10%
|
8%
|
-2%
|
Coalition
School for Social Change
|
4%
|
8%
|
4%
|
Wadleigh
Secondary School for the Performing & Vis
|
7%
|
7%
|
0%
|
Henry
Street School for International Studies
|
39%
|
5%
|
-34%
|
10 comments:
Failing mini high schools are quietly being absorbed by the schools in the building that have better stats. It is called "collapsing"! For example at the Wingate Campus in Brooklyn the JHS was completely taken away and the second and third floor schools are going to become one school.
I have heard of other big buildings that would welcome "collapsing" because they really want to expand and need the space.
Sounds like the comprehensive HS is on the way back! Now we need community schools back too!
All failed policies but they keep doing the wrong thing.
It's slowly going back to the old system. Under the Bloomberg era crazy principals were brought in saying that nothing worked. That is how old schools began to shut down and these little, pathetic schools were created. Just how the DOE principals got rid of a lot of staff, it's time to get rid of these idiotic principals. We need true leaders that won't fall for this, sorry to write it, BULLSHIT!. This will also include that students will need to do their homework, classwork and behave themselves. Parents will need to discipline their children, monitor their work and stop having babies if they cannot afford children and/or cannot handle the stress associated with it. It all boils down to RESPONSIBILITY.
a friend of mine was at a renewal school in the Bronx for 4 years. last year she was offered a position in the New Rochelle School System. she now describes her experience being in the new york shitty doe as being in an abusive relationship!! NYCDOE is a horrible place to work you just better hope you learn that early in your career!!!
Yes, and people's careers are getting destroyed. The procedures these administrators put in place don't work. Teachers and school counselors get penalized when the rates are not adequate.
Monroe Academy for Visual Arts isn't even being phased out they just made the entire staff ATRs and sent freshman, sophomores and juniors to be absorbed by the other schools in the building. I haven't seen a thing written about it.
Sorry to hear about this.
They are also very corrupt.
Dwarka has destroyed the school still Fariña loves her.
More nonsense.
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