Bloomberg gets another F in NYC education, many drop outs from special high schools meant for struggling students in 2011-2012 after academic standards raised

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"The class of 2012 was the first that needed to pass all five Regents subject exams with a score of at least 65 out of 100."...

7/6/13, "Dropouts top grads at transfer schools," NY Post, Yoav Gonen

"The city’s second-chance high schools saw more students drop out than graduate in 2011-12 — a major drop in performance compared to a year earlier, a Post analysis found....

DOE officials, who have opened up dozens of transfer schools in recent years to offer smaller, more intimate environments for struggling students, said the February 2012 policy tweaks were minor. Instead they attributed the drop in performance at second-chance schools to the increased standards needed to graduate.

The class of 2012 was the first that needed to pass all five Regents subject exams with a score of at least 65 out of 100....

The school with the biggest gap between numbers of graduates and dropouts was Bushwick Community HS in Brooklyn, which had 67 students graduate in 2012, but saw 149 others drop out that same year.

Forsyth Satellite Academy in Manhattan and Bronx Regional HS were the schools with the next-largest gaps.

A handful of schools with insufficient data for 2011 or 2012 were excluded from The Post’s analysis."


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