To prepare academics for careers, New York City is launching an apprenticeship program that aims to position 3,000 academics in corporations focused on finance, generation and business operations over the next 3 years, officials said Monday.
Since taking over the country’s largest school formula in January, Chancellor David Banks has continuously promised to conduct internships, practical work reports and partnerships with giant companies. Monday’s announcement represents the first glimpse of this approach.
“Too often, schools don’t communicate about students’ achievements and goals or link learning to the real world,” Banks said at a news conference at JPMorgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters, flanked by CEOs that included JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Accenture’s Julie Sweet.
High school students “often go through the steps” with their schoolwork, but “have no idea what that means,” Banks said. “How does it relate to the real world?” This program, he said, will respond to this by offering “genuine world skills” and giving students a “head start” in school and career.
At 59 top schools, ninth and tenth graders will have a “career readiness” program that includes how to use Microsoft Office, create a resume and pass a job interview, said Barbara Chang, executive director of CareerWise New York, which works in partnership with the Department of Education to administer the program. Students will also take guided tours of manhattan’s structure sites.
Approximately 3,000 students from the 59 schools, often rising third- and fourth-year students, will be chosen by employers for longer internships that will last between two and three years and pay between $15 and $25 per hour. Students will work as apprentices for 15 to 20 hours a week on the general school day, school branch officials said.
Sophomores at those schools can begin applying this spring for apprenticeships that will begin this summer, school branch officials said.
In the past, a handful of corporations agreed to rent apprentices, adding that JPMorgan, Ernst
Chang said some participants are very likely to seek a college education even if presented with an assignment at the end of their apprenticeship, a phenomenon not unusual among academics who have already participated in CareerWise New York’s existing learning systems, which were first introduced in 2019. He said he hopes systems like those will channel more academics directly into the work.
“It’s going to take a while to uproot this total ‘college for all’ thing that doesn’t seem to be working,” Chang said.
Other elementary school systems are also doubling down on vocational and technical education, adding Chicago, which has highlighted those systems in its three-year “master plan” for the district. In New York, Mayor Eric Adams and Banks also seem to be moving in that direction. . Banks said the apprenticeship program is just one component of management’s career-oriented approach, with more major points in “the coming weeks. “
Some outdoor observers applauded the learnings and said the opportunities had been long delayed.
“It’s time for the city to invest more in youth learning,” said Kevin Stump, vice president of economic mobility and innovation at Rockland Community College. higher school to careers, he said.
Still, Stump noted that the 3,000 apprenticeships at 59 high schools over 3 years are “a drop in the ocean” and the city’s plans to grow. There are about 288,000 academics in more than 400 public high schools.
Experts said it will be vital to stick to schools and students who ultimately make up their minds to make sure systems reap benefits for students who traditionally don’t have access to more prestigious career paths.
“Now that they are adding opportunities that lead to higher-paying jobs, academics who have a tendency to have access to those systems have a tendency to come from higher-income backgrounds and who are performing better,” Elisabeth Kim said. , a professor at California State University, Monterey Bay, who studied professional and technical systems.
City officials chose 59 schools out of a hundred applicants, a variety of criteria in their final elections, adding college tuition and poverty rates “to ensure that certain resources were distributed equitably. “Officials declined to provide a list of attractive schools, but they said so. would be available this week.
The programme will be jointly funded through public and personal sources. The city is contributing $33 million to a variety of career-focused programs in addition to this one, and Bloomberg Philanthropies is injecting $8 million. (Bloomberg Philanthropies also supports Chalkbeat. ) Several other personal program organizations are involved, in addition to JPMorgan Chase, Accenture and Robin Hood.
A spokesman for the education branch said the branch plans to compare the program, but has yet finalized the express parameters that will be compared.
Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive, said the program will be judged “by the bottom line and not by the money spent,” adding the number of academics who find jobs in corporations like his or who are in college programs.
“I’ve been making efforts like this for almost 30 years,” Dimon said. “We will measure and report. We may fail, but it may not be for lack of attempts. “
Chalkbeat is a non-profit news story covering educational adjustments in public schools.
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