Dinowitz highlights DOE implementation gaps and questions for hearing
Dinowitz says the shift puts a great deal of weight on the NYC Department of Education and notes the state timeline is incomplete. He lists questions for the hearing: what is being done now for students in grades 9-11, expanding work-based learning, learning from consortium schools, and coordinating with NYSED.
This shift puts a great deal of weight on the New York City Department of Education.
NYSID's own transformation timeline schedules the release of portrait rubrics and guidance for this school year, and NYSID has committed to releasing additional implementation guidance by summer 2027.
Regulatory amendments to Part 100 of the Commissioner's regulations are not scheduled to reach the Board as a discussion item until February of 27, with adoption anticipated in June of 27.
As of last week, advocates were telling the regents that schools still do not know how they will measure proficiency for students currently in grades 9 through 11, students who will be affected in less than a year.
Implementing this vision across the nation's largest school district will be an enormous undertaking.
And New York City will be doing it on a timeline the state has not fully yet defined.
In March, Chancellor Samuel signaled that the DOE plans to ramp up its work on portrait and restructured his cabinet to create a senior position supervising high school leadership.
That division was filled.
By Dr.
Alan Cheng, who previously oversaw Outward Bound Schools, the Internationals Network, serving newcomer immigrant students, and New York Performance Standards Consortium Schools, a portfolio that includes some of New York City's most established performance assessment models.
Beyond that appointment, the DOE has not publicly announced an implementation plan
professional development program, or guidance to schools on the portrait.
So today we will ask, how is the city preparing to implement the portrait framework across New York City public schools?
What is being done now for students in grades 9 through 11 and beyond?
And who will graduate under the new system?
Are you expanding work-based learning and other performance-based opportunities in the meantime?
What are you learning from consortium schools which have assessed students this way for decades?
And how are you coordinating with NYSID on these issues?