City's Underperforming Schools Join Statewide List
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Less than a week before the city votes on whether to close 20 schools for poor performance, the State Education Department has entered the fray, announcing its own list of 34 city schools it says must be be dramatically restructured or shut down.
The State Education Department identified 57 schools statewide as "persistently the lowest achieving" -- 34 of which are located in the city.
Yet, 12 of those 34 do not appear on the list of 20 schools the city wants to close.
The new policy stems from the application submitted this week for the federal Race to the Top competition.
For each school targeted, the state will give the city at least $50,000 in federal funds and allow the city to choose how it wants to change the school.
Schools can be phased out and replaced, converted into charter schools, closed completely, or what the state is calling "transformed."
The schools that are now on both the state and city lists are Christopher Columbus, Norman Thomas, Monroe Academy for Business and Law, Metropolitan Corporate, W. H. Maxwell, Beach Channel, Jamaica and Paul Robeson.
Washington Irving High School
Unity Center for Urban Technologies
Chelsea Career and Tech Ed H.S.
Norman Thomas High School
H.S. of Graphic Communication Arts
Bread & Roses Integrated Arts H.S.
PS 65 Mother Hale Academy
Jane Addams H.S. for Academic Careers
Fordham Leadership Academy
John F. Kennedy High School
Grace H. Dodge Career and Tech H.S.
Christopher Columbus High School
Monroe Academy for Business & Law
Automotive High School
School for Global Studies
Cobble Hill School of American Studies
Metropolitan Corporate Academy
Boys & Girls High School
Paul Robeson High School
W.H. Maxwell Career and Tech H.S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt High School
John Dewey High School
William E. Grady Vocational High School
Sheepshead Bay High School
Newtown High School
Grover Cleveland High School
Queens Vocational-Technical High School
Flushing High School
August Martin High School
Beach Channel High School
Richmond Hill High School
John Adams High School
Jamaica High School
Long Island City High School