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- Print number 5285a
- Amend and recommit to education
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Requires the commissioner of education to study the educational model at The Eagle Academy and develop an educational program to be utilized by certain schools
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Michael Blake
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Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a study of the educational model at The Eagle Academy and developing an education program to be utilized by certain schools
Purpose
To evaluate the education model at the Eagle Academy and to use those findings as a basis for improving certain public schools in New York.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 establishes that the commissioner conduct a study evaluating the Eagle Academy's curriculum, educational model, and its approach to professional development. These findings should then be used to create a new education program to be distributed to New York public schools whose student body is predominately made up of students from historically marginalized groups.
Justification
When we assess the challenges of African American and Latino young boys in our city and state, we determine that Education is the critical foundation to help create a pathway to success. The Eagle Academy for Young Men is a system of six schools and is helping to lay that critical foundation. The Academy, which is open to grades six through 12, was created in 2004 by the One Hundred Black Men of America. The schools are strategically placed in high-crime areas in all five boroughs of New York City, and in Newark, New Jersey. The Eagle Academy has achieved incomparable success in educating and graduating young boys of color. The average number of Black and Latino boys to graduate high school in New York City is 50 percent. At Eagle Academy, that rate is 78 percent, with 100 percent of its students being accepted into colleges. At The Eagle Academy's Bronx school, every student's day begins with breakfast and a town hall meeting where students get to discuss with administrator's school announcements and any issues they are experiencing. Given its remarkable success, it is a model that should be researched to determine how to scale out a similar system across our state to empower our young men of color. If successfully implemented, such a model would not only cause more kids to attend school, but would increase the rate at which they graduate and move onto prosperous lives.
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To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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