NYC Schools Join San Francisco, Will Offer Computer Science To All Students

The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts by 2020, there will be 1 million more computer-science related jobs.

“The squabble between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t just media hype; it’s real, voters say, and it’s harmful to everyone in the state”, Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll said in a statement.

One new proposal also is aimed at the early formative years of students’ lives to set them on track for later success. “These are the building blocks that will ensure our students and this city can compete in a world that demands more education than at any time in our history”.

Currently, only 1% of students within the city receive computer science instruction; under 10% of schools offer it. And it will cost $81 million over a decade, with half that amount coming from private sources. “What is relevant is – and where the 78 percent are wrong – is I would never allow a relationship issue with anyone to have anything to do with how I serve the state”, Cuomo said during a stop in Harlem. This was most recently seen in his decision to continue working out at his YMCA gym and then visit a coffee shop in Park Slope while our city’s courageous first responders were in a six hour standoff with a gang member in Staten Island that resulted in a fire lieutenant being shot twice.

Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH’-zee-oh) on Wednesday will deliver a speech touting his massive pre-kindergarten expansion as the foundation for a series of new policy initiatives. As the mayor said, “too many students are learning to type instead of learning to code”. While students of means tend to get the support they need, “students from low-income families often flounder and fall further and further behind and never really learn the basic skills they need to function”. By 2022, all students would have access to algebra in eighth grade, up from 60 percent now. The courses, which can yield college credit, are unavailable in 120 public high schools. To bridge that gap, the city plans to bring on board 700 reading specialists who will focus on helping students become literate.

Despite ample evidence that jobs in computing are growing at twice the national rate as other professions, public schools have fallen short when it comes to teaching the subject to its students.

A recent study on educational mobility by Families for Excellent Schools showed a deep racial divide in opportunity in NYC public schools.

“We’ve known for a long time we didn’t have equity in our school system”, de Blasio told the AP.