DOE Announces Plans For Three More Career Technical Education High Schools
By: Lindsey Christ
It's one of the most popular new ideas in education, and it started in Brooklyn: a new type of high school that is opening all over the country and is now set to expand even more within the city. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.
In a few years, 2,000 city students will attend high schools that don't just have grades 9, 10, 11 and 12, but also grades 13 and 14.
The first of these schools opened in 2011 in Crown Heights. Two more open next month, and plans for more were announced on Thursday.
"I'm very excited to formally announce plans to launch three more 9 through 14 schools set to open in September of 2014," said Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.
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