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Numbers and demographics of students receiving tuition payments through due process
4:20:02
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Liz Vladek provides updated numbers and demographic information for students receiving tuition payments through due process for the current and previous school years.
- School year 2023-2024: 6,113 students received tuition payments
- Current school year (as of the hearing date): 2,393 students have received tuition payments
- Demographic breakdown:
- 50-66% of tuition cases filed by families identifying as white, non-Latino
- About 25% of tuition students do not identify in any racial category
- Families of color are significantly underrepresented in due process and tuition filings compared to overall student population
Rita Joseph
4:20:02
At our January 30 hearing, New York City Public School was able to provide a preliminary number of students who are receiving tuition payment through due process for schools in 2024.
4:20:11
Can you provide updated numbers of students receiving tuition payment through due process for the school year twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, and can you provide this preliminary number for the current school year?
Liz Vladek
4:20:25
Yes chair, I have to apologize because we didn't prepare the number for school year '23.
4:20:31
I can tell you that for school year '24, so school year twenty three-twenty four, we have so far made tuition payments for 6,113 students.
4:20:42
For the current school year, we have currently made tuition payments for 2,393 students, and to my earlier point I just want to make sure I'm being repetitive to just say those numbers will continue to go up.
Rita Joseph
4:21:03
So can you give us numbers of students receiving oh, did.
4:21:07
And current school year, can we break it down by race, socioeconomic status, age, gender, and school district and council districts?
Liz Vladek
4:21:15
Yes, chair.
4:21:16
We're doing our best on that, and we have some very detailed tables that we should be able to send you today.
4:21:23
We have not been able to this point to identify specifically school district and council district.
4:21:31
However, the top lines here are pretty clear.
4:21:36
Somewhere between a half to two thirds of all tuition cases are filed by families who identify as white, non Latino.
4:21:47
The number of tuition students we have who do not identify any in any racial category is pretty significant, so about 25%.
4:21:58
The takeaway point is that families of color are very underrepresented in due process and especially tuition filings, especially when you put those numbers up against our student population in the public schools where they're almost flipped.
Rita Joseph
4:22:18
That is what we're seeing.
4:22:20
So that's why we wanted this.
4:22:21
You'll get that to me this afternoon broken down into these areas.
4:22:25
In our special education hearing in January, New York City public schools testified students who need a programming for autism and dyslexia make up the majority of due process claims.