{"id":3574,"date":"2017-03-28T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nyceducationnews\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:36:33","slug":"families-excellent-schools-ceo-jeremiah-kittredge-pep-vote-close-8-renewal-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nyceducationnews\/families-excellent-schools-ceo-jeremiah-kittredge-pep-vote-close-8-renewal-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Families for Excellent Schools&#8217; CEO Jeremiah Kittredge On PEP Vote TO Close 8 Renewal Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Original Media Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycnewswire.com\">NYCNewswire.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Statement on Panel for Educational Policy Vote to Close Eight Renewal Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong> \u2013 Families for Excellent Schools\u2019 CEO Jeremiah Kittredge released the following statement in response to last night\u2019s Panel for Educational Policy vote to close or merge eight Renewal schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremiah Kittredge, CEO, Families for Excellent Schools:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe already knew that Mayor de Blasio\u2019s Renewal School program was failing and last night\u2019s vote to close or merge just eight Renewal Schools is proof that his team still isn\u2019t willing to put students first. Six renewal high schools and 23 renewal elementary schools that will remain open next year have lower graduation rates and fewer students performing at grade level than those that were voted on last night. If the Mayor wants to do what\u2019s best for New York City students, he should abandon this failed experiment and give parents the public school choices they deserve.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Six of the renewal high schools that will remain open next year \u2014 or nearly 20 percent of those currently operating \u2014 reported graduation rates below Leadership Institute\u2019s, which the Panel for Educational Policy voted to close last night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>23 of the renewal elementary and middle schools that will remain open next year \u2014 or nearly 40 percent of those currently operating \u2014 reported ELA-Math pass rates below MS 584\u2019s, which the Panel for Educational Policy voted to close last night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Leadership Institute graduated just 51.1 percent of its seniors on time last year \u2013 but six renewal high schools that will remain open performed even worse:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Juan Morel Secondary Campos Secondary School: 49.1% graduation rate<br \/>\n\u00b7 Bronx High School of Business: 48.5% graduation rate<br \/>\n\u00b7 DeWitt Clinton High School: 47.7%graduation rate<br \/>\n\u00b7 Coalition School for Social Change: 46.3% graduation rate<br \/>\n\u00b7 Banana Kelly High School: 45.2% graduation rate<br \/>\n\u00b7 August Martin High School: 38.6% graduation rate<\/p>\n<p>Frederick Douglass Academy IV Secondary School and Automotive High School are the two renewal high schools that will merge with their co-located schools. In 2016, they graduated 63.2 percent and 56.3 percent of their seniors on time, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 15 renewal high schools that will remain open had lower graduation rates than Frederick Douglass Academy IV<br \/>\n\u00b7 10 renewal high schools that will remain open had lower graduation rates than Automotive High School<\/p>\n<p>At the elementary and middle school level, renewal school MS 584 will be closed after just 10 percent of students scored at grade level in reading and math in 2016 \u2013 but 23 renewal schools that scored even lower will remain open next year. These include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 M.S. 301 Paul L. Dunbar: 5 percent of students at grade level<br \/>\n\u00b7 Henry Street School for International Studies: 5 percent of students at grade level<br \/>\n\u00b7 The Hunts Point School: 5 percent of students at grade level<br \/>\n\u00b7 Urban Science Academy: 6 percent of students at grade level<br \/>\n###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Media Source: NYCNewswire.com Statement on Panel for Educational Policy Vote to Close Eight Renewal Schools New York, NY \u2013 Families for Excellent Schools\u2019 CEO Jeremiah Kittredge released the following statement in response to last night\u2019s Panel for Educational Policy vote to close or merge eight Renewal schools. 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