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Follow-up on Queens South literacy program metrics and investments
1:14:25
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Council Member Dinowitz presses for specific information about the metrics and financial investments in the Queens South high school literacy program. Dr. Pate and Chancellor Aviles-Ramos provide information on the program's current status and future plans.
- Dr. Pate explains that the Queens South program is new and metrics are still being developed
- The current investment is primarily in 'people capital' rather than financial resources
- Chancellor Aviles-Ramos offers to arrange a separate briefing with the superintendent for more detailed information
- The DOE emphasizes the need to ensure the program's quality before scaling it up
Dr. Miatheresa Pate
1:14:25
So thank you for the question.
1:14:27
The district and the superintendent that you're referencing is Doctor.
1:14:31
Josephine Van Ness who has her finger on the pulse of creating access and opportunity for high school students who have through classroom assessments and other assessments been identified as needing additional skill support, which goes directly to your point around interventions and interventions being a leveling set opportunity for students to one, still engage in their core content classes while also having additional opportunities such as before school, after school, and for some I
Eric Dinowitz
1:15:09
wanna pause because we time, other members need to speak.
1:15:13
My question I I want to make sure we're getting to my question.
1:15:16
What metrics are used to measure the success of this program?
1:15:20
How much financial this is a budget meeting.
1:15:22
How much financial investment is being made into Queen's South?
1:15:26
And what financial investments would be needed to make this more universal?
Dr. Miatheresa Pate
1:15:31
So respectfully, this particular program that you're referencing that Doctor.
1:15:35
Josephine Van Ness has launched is a very new program.
1:15:38
So we are still in the process of tracking its success, and from tracking the success, we are able to then identify appropriate metrics that we then can can follow, measure, and then allocate resources appropriately.
Eric Dinowitz
1:15:55
And how much is being invested right now in this program?
Dr. Miatheresa Pate
1:15:57
So right now it's people capital that has been our greatest, investment to this particular program.
1:16:04
As I said, this is a newly launched program across her district.
1:16:08
So as of now, this is that is the investment that we are making to determine the success of the program.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
1:16:16
We can do a briefing with you, council member.
1:16:19
We'll we'll make sure that we do a separate briefing with superintendent Van Ness, but I think what just to put a fine point on it, it's very new.
1:16:27
We're still tracking progress, and as I mentioned in my opening remarks, we wanna make sure that any intervention that we're scaling across the city is one of high quality, and that's something that can be applied to different districts.
1:16:38
This might be perfect for this particular superintendency.
1:16:42
We don't know if this is something yet that we can scale up, but we would love to talk more about what's happening there and get your input, especially since you were a high school teacher.
Eric Dinowitz
1:16:50
That's right.
1:16:50
Thank you very much, Chancellor.
1:16:51
Thank you, everyone.