New York City Public Schools expanding programs to improve math, literacy skills
LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- There are major changes ahead for the more than 900,000 students in New York City Public Schools, that will come from both inside, and outside the classroom.
One plan calls for additional funding to help the city's homeless students, and another could push new standards into how students are taught.
A math competition, held Thursday in Lower Manhattan, celebrates the expansion of NYC Reads and NYC Solves.
The sweet ring of triumph tolled again and again, as eighth graders from the Bronx beat Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other city leaders in a friendly, but heated, game of 24.
"Honestly, those kids are incredible. I thought we were not going to be that bad," Mamdani said.
The two programs, NYC Reads and NYC Solves, are designed to improve literacy and math skills through more unified curriculum options.
Thanks to a $17.3 million investment from the Mamdani administration, NYC Reads will start a new chapter in four high schools this fall, and for the first time, the math program will be in elementary schools.
New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuel's used to be a math teacher.
"All young people need to get access to high-quality content," he said. "And we know that in some of our elementary schools, if there's so much phobia, even quite frankly, in some of our teachers."
The Mamdani administration is pouring into the next generation of geniuses as they calculate their paths to success.
"The energy in here is exactly what we wish in every classroom," said Danielle Giunta, First Deputy Chancellor of New York City Public Schools.
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