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Council Member Dinowitz requests metrics and financial data for high school literacy program
1:13:10
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Council Member Dinowitz presses for specific information about the metrics used to measure the success of the high school literacy program and the financial investments made or needed to make it more universal.
- Dinowitz disagrees with the Chancellor's previous explanation about intervention classes
- He emphasizes the need for incentives for high schools to implement literacy programs
- Dinowitz requests specific metrics for measuring the program's success and information on financial investments
Eric Dinowitz
1:13:10
Well, I'm just gonna I'm gonna respectfully disagree because I did intervention classes, and the students excelled in all their other classes, these are ninth, tenth graders, once they learned how to read on their own.
1:13:23
And it was testified at a hearing two months ago that this is something, unless it was testified incorrectly or I misunderstood what the actual intervention was.
1:13:32
But I think the point is that if you don't provide any incentives for the high schools to do it, they're not going to do it.
1:13:39
And so the question is what metrics you're using to measure the success of this, and subsequently what financial investments are being made and what financial investments are needed to make this type of program more universal.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
1:13:53
Yes.