Governor Cuomo is determined to replicate P-TECH, well before it has graduated even one student. He’s ordered 10 more grade six to 14 digital literacy-focused schools to open around the state, though the locations are as yet undetermined, according to The New York Daily News:
Since it launched in 2011, Brooklyn’s P-TECH has spawned scores of imitators and garnered a series of high-profile endorsements from President Obama, who visited the school in October and declared, “We need to give every American student opportunities like this.”
P-TECH employs a computer science-based curriculum created in partnership with IBM, which will give students the first crack at jobs when the first class graduates in 2017.
Although P-TECH’s success remains largely untested because it is relatively new, federal education officials requested $300 million from Congress in April to duplicate P-TECH-style programs in high schools around the country.
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