Chair Lee on JFK campus Student Success Center

The JFK campus is a little low.

I'm now local council member Eric Dinowitz.

JFK campus is at risk of losing their student success centers.

I was asking about our student success centers before.

Now to remind you, JFK campus is one where a young boy was murdered just a few short months ago.

They faced the first

The student at one of their schools on the JFK campus was the first one to be detained by ICE, and the Student Success Center funding is critical, and they are at risk of losing that funding.

What assurances can DOE provide that the Student Success Center at JFK will not be cut?

Thank you, Chair Dinowitz.

As you know, the Student Success Centers are really a partnership between our office at the Office of Student Pathways, the Student Success Coalition, but particularly

with our principals and school leaders.

And so at the Ellis campus, which is one of the four at Kennedy, the principal actually made the decision that they did not think the Student Success Center was effective, and so we have been following their lead.

However, and given that the other principals also did not want to continue with the program, that is the reason why it was going to leave that campus.

But given the late timing and when it's been happening, we are going to extend it for one other year.

But the principals there, because this is a program that is really driven by school leaders, have actually said that it's not something that they're interested in keeping.

So we should continue in having conversations with them at that particular campus.

The good news is that the funding actually does not go away for the CBO that's involved.

So as you know, it's Kingsbridge Center.

That the funds that Kennedy doesn't use can actually be transferred over to the Walton campus where the Kingsbridge folks also work with.

Two of my favorite schools.

In our favorite district.

Our favorite, that's right.

I hear they have good people who used to work on those campuses.

I would note the information, it was me, I would note the information that I have is that it is not all of the principals who want to discontinue that, to the principals who have the programming due, but that there is a cost.

So this is a financial cost.

But we will continue the conversation, but just know that this was the organization that was there for the students after the murder of that young boy and that they were there

to organize the town hall around school safety where we had a hearing here about, and they're there for our students.

So I would like to continue that conversation, but this is of importance to the students, and my understanding is that it is of importance to the principals on the campus.

Yeah, I visited that campus, both when that incident happened and also visited.

With the return of Dylan, I would say we'll look into it and see what we can do.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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