New York State Education Department (NYSED) has listed 124 New York City Public Schools as struggling when it comes to academic achievement. Most of the struggling schools in the lowest tier are in the Bronx (37) and Brooklyn (28). By contrast, Manhattan has (13), Queens (5), and Staten Island (1).
Queens, schools in need of academic improvement are as follows:
Queens
FLUSHING HIGH SCHOOL
JHS 226 VIRGIL I GRISSON
ACADEY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY – A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL
CATHERINE AND COUNT BASIE MIDDLE SCHOOL 72
IS 59 SPRINGFIELD GARDENS
IS 238 SUSAN B ANTHONY ACADEMY
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL
Interestingly, many of the schools listed are in the Renewal program. Moreover, in the lowest tier these are the Queens schools.
Queens
INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
NORTH QUEENS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL
QUEENS UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL
EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN HIGH SCHOOL
According to New York City, they will do the following to get these schools off the struggling list.
- Curriculum changes.
- Alternative discipline methods.
- Paying teachers more
- Lower class sizes.
- Experienced teachers.
- More stringent student discipline.
- Prohibit student cellphone use in schools.
- Better school administrators.
An entire list of struggling schools can be found in Chatkbeat
As an ATR I’ve been to ALL the Bronx high schools on the list. Some shouldn’t be there, like Jill Chevitz Transfer HS and Bronx Arena. Those were the best I’ve been - all overage men and women as students. The worst schools I’ve been at are Eagle, Freddy Douglas 3, Health Opportunites, Violence and Dance, Wings and Bronx Studio. All are on the list except for Bronx Studio. Great admin at most of them but the kids are completely crazy and the staffs young and inexperienced. Several of these places are very dangerous. The UFT(yes you, Leroy Barr) kiss the collective asses of the organization behind the Eagle Academy for Young Men. They should rename it for Harvey Milk as the boys are all dry humping one another and playing who’s got the salami. The UFT shouldn’t act surprised when ATRs stop paying dues next June. Mike Shill won’t even give me a straight answer if we are being rotated next week.
ReplyDeleteHow does the state's designation of struggling schools affect DiBlasio's Renewal School Program, if at all?
ReplyDeleteThe DOE forced me to interview in the Bronx 2 or 3 years ago. I did everything in my power to get out of the interview. I called the principal over 20 times asking him about parking, which door to enter, safety etc... He still forced me to interview. The interview was not going too well for me. I could see the principal and the AP were trying to hire me. I literally urinated in my pants and stood up to let them see. I asked them if they had a mop or paper towels. Interview was finished.
ReplyDeleteTo the two administrators if you are reading this: I wholeheartedly apologize but I knew I could never teach or work in the Bronx. I am sorry but there are many other heros out there. I am not a hero.
Dwarka has really destroyed a good school. Maybe she can get promoted. There are no ecperienced teachers left.
ReplyDeleteDwarka this, Dwarka that - send her to the Bronx! I’ll take Dwarka any day over the shit high schools (and their principals) I’ve been to over the past five years.
DeleteShe likes to harasd and discriminate older teachers, maybe she has too many newbies now.
DeleteLook to the parents and the homes! There is where the problems begin!
ReplyDeleteI find it all so sad. Schools can be so much better if we addressed the real problems.
ReplyDeleteThe most heartbreaking problems is when the students who are serious about their education are mixed in with those who do not care; everyone loses.
Why not go back to keeping the serious students together? Why do they have to be exposed to students who are there for social or business reasons?
Why is Dwarka still a Principal?
ReplyDeleteI trust that’s rhetorical
ReplyDeleteSome of the Leadership Principals are so incompetent that they are draging the schools to the ground.
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