Councilmember Maloney presses on Manhattan Youth scoring and principal input
Maloney asks for details on how Manhattan Youth scored against criteria and whether principals who ranked them first were overruled. Officials say specifics can't be shared during the protest period but note over 80% of principals got their first or second choice.
I have one more question.
You shared what the technical factors are that you were looking at.
One of them was around budget.
Can you share more details on how Manhattan Youth scored against those criteria?
At this time, we can't give specifics because we are in the protest period.
And also, they will be awarded a briefing, so they will get not only their scores and how they fared in relationship to other people, but they will get also specific feedback on their RFP of areas that were highlighted by the evaluator.
And are there instances where a school and a principal did rank Manhattan Youth as excellent and it was still not awarded again?
And if that's the case, there's a process where the principals on the ground are being overruled in a closed-door process, if you could speak to that.
It wasn't a closed-door process.
It was actually a transparent process that was guided by a contribution that was made by the principal.
So principals'selections was weighed, but the primary selections, as Dana mentioned, were the RFP.
And so I'm proud to say that over 80% of principals got their first or second award.