QUESTION
What are the policies on enrollment caps for NYC public schools, and how does this affect principals?
1:38:27
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NYC Public Schools have not decided to implement enrollment caps for the upcoming year, preferring to maintain family choice.
- Enrollment caps at some schools may be necessary in the future, but not for the next year.
- The NYC Public Schools administration is hesitant to implement system-wide enrollment caps due to the impact on family choice.
- Principals wanting to change their school's enrollment work directly with the enrollment team to make case-by-case decisions.
- Decisions within schools are made taking into consideration the overall budget and specific constraints.
Shekar Krishnan
1:38:27
So then what what is the communication with principles?
1:38:30
Are they permitted to ask for you know, going under the the cap next year in terms of enrollment?
1:38:37
Are you all encouraging them or discouraging them from doing that?
1:38:40
Or what's the communication like with principals who want to institute a cap.
Emma Vadehra
1:38:48
Yes.
1:38:49
Tell me if I'm not answering the question.
Althea Stevens
1:38:50
Sure thing.
Emma Vadehra
1:38:50
So I would say a couple of things.
1:38:53
As we've shared a few times, enrollment caps at a series of schools might be a thing we need to do going forward.
1:39:00
That is not a thing we thought we needed to do for next year.
1:39:03
And as we said, that is that is something we are Right.
1:39:05
We are not eager to do from a family choice perspective.
1:39:09
So we chose to make no system wide decisions about that, where principles came in and we have a bunch of enrollment people here who can speak more about where principles came in and wanted to change their enrollment.
1:39:18
For whatever reasons, as we always do, our enrollment team went back and forth of them and worked through each of those as they came in in that way.
1:39:26
And I'd also say where schools wanna make different decisions within their what Dan just said is one thing might make it due to constrained school's decisions within our existing budget.