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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Student Pathways and Future Ready NYC: Preparing students for high-demand careers
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Chancellor Aviles-Ramos highlights the Student Pathways initiative and the Future Ready NYC program, which aim to prepare students for high-demand careers and postsecondary success. These programs have shown promising results and continue to expand.
- Future Ready NYC serves over 15,000 students across 135 schools, partnering with major employers like Google and Northwell Health.
- Future Ready schools show higher attendance rates and GPAs despite having higher than average economic need.
- Early college credits with CUNY have increased by 10% in the last two years.
- AP exam participation and performance have reached record levels, with significant increases among Black and Hispanic students.
- New innovative high school programs are being launched, including the Northwell School of Health Sciences and HBCU Early College Prep.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
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Our student pathways work reimagines the high school experience to prepare our students for high demand careers in technology, healthcare, business, education, and more.
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Our signature future ready NYC program has grown to serve over 15,000 students across 135 schools, partnering with major employers including Google, Northwell Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and many others.
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Our analysis shows that our future ready schools, despite having higher than average economic need compared other schools across the city, have statistically significantly higher rates of attendance and higher GPAs.
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We have also increased the number of students getting early college credits with CUNY by 10% in the last two years, and we are seeing impressive results among high schoolers on their advanced placement participation and performance.
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In 2024, a record forty five percent of all seniors took at least one AP exam while in high school and over a quarter of all seniors passed at least one AP exam.
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The number of students passing these tests increased this year by more than 12% including a 15% increase among black and Hispanic students.
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But we are not stopping there.
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We are launching multiple innovative high school programs in the fall including the Northwell School of Health Sciences, HBCU Early College Prep, Queen's International High School, and the Bronx Steam Center.
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These are just a few of the 28 new schools opened in this administration.
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And finally, this spring we announced our newest signature initiative, NYCPS Cares, aligned to my commitments to student safety and wellness, educator support, and family empowerment.