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Council member questions DOE on Summer Rising program impact for middle school students
2:18:30
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Council Member Althea V. Stevens inquires about the impact analysis of the Summer Rising program, particularly focusing on the lack of academic gains for middle school students. She questions whether the DOE and DYC are considering changes to the programming model based on these findings.
- The impact analysis showed no significant academic gains for middle school participants, even those attending for 20 days or more.
- Middle school participants who attended for 20+ days performed worse in reading scores compared to their counterparts.
- The DOE representative acknowledges the rigorous nature of the analysis and its importance.
Althea V. Stevens
2:18:30
Next question is based on summarizing.
2:18:32
Based on the impact analysis that was done back in March that DOE did, there was an academic gain of middle there were no academic gain for middle school students, even for middle school participants who attended summarizing program for twenty days or more.
2:18:47
There were
Mark Gonsalvez
2:18:47
no
Althea V. Stevens
2:18:47
strategic significant impact on masks.
2:18:50
Furthermore, when compared to other students in the city middle school summarizing, participants who attended summarizing program for twenty days or more fared worse and reading scores in their counterparties.
2:19:02
And based on this analysis, are you and DYC looking to change programming models for middle school students, why or why not, and I just even wanna preface this a little bit more around now that I have oversight over ACS and looking at the numbers in the Juvenile Justice Descension Center, we're over 300 currently of young people and mostly between the ages of 14 and 16, and there's a rising number of felony charges, and then we're seeing that the attendance in summarizing also with SYEP, they are doing project based learning, which a lot of them have been complaining about, and they get $700 for the summer, so we are they're not going to SYEP, they're not going to Summer Rising, I'm just trying to get a better understanding as we're moving into the summer, what are we doing for middle school?
2:19:51
I know this council spends a lot of time talking about three ks and pre k, but no one is talking about this population of students who are going into the juvenile justice system and really thinking about how are we targeting and going after them in a real way, and again summarizing SYP and all these things, are failing this population of kids.
2:20:13
So I'm just wanting to hear how are we changing this program to fit what they want and not what we think they need.
Emma Vadehra
2:20:27
Thank you for the question, and I appreciate the focus on older students for sure.
2:20:33
So I just wanna say a few things.
2:20:36
The summarizing impact analysis, and just to be clear, that was like a really pretty rigorous analysis, higher bar than we usually do for our programs.
Althea V. Stevens
2:20:46
But we should be doing it for all the programs, so
Rita Joseph
2:20:48
thank you.
Emma Vadehra
2:20:48
We should, but it's one of the things that actually hard to do in many cases because we don't have like students who didn't get the exact same intervention.