Dinowitz says Portrait could be transformative or a failure for students

There's certainly a lot more.

On this topic to discuss for sure.

This is the biggest change, I think, to high schools and graduation requirements that I've ever seen.

And we have here the opportunity to turn it into something very special, very rigorous, very meaningful for our students.

Or we can go down the road of failing.

And if there's one place we shouldn't fail, it's our kids, especially in a system that has so much good experience doing this under your leadership, Dr.

Chang, right, and through all the people on the panel.

We've discussed a number of things today.

Clearly increased communication, increased guidance, clarity and guidance from central, you know, support for the teachers and the principals.

A lot of work that still needs to go into it.

I'm going to, you know, continue to stay ready to work with you.

And also, as always, hold the DOE accountable because we are, again, talking about the future of our city.

We're talking about our kids.

And there's nothing that's more important to me than that.

So with increased communication, really creating a structure around best practices, providing the

teachers and principals actual supports and structures for sharing best practices, figuring out scaling to scale this to the largest school district in the system and lean on the expertise within our system.

I think this really can be something truly transformative for our children and for our city.

And I want to once again thank you all for coming.

I encourage you to stay to hear from our students, a lot of youth journalism students here who've patiently waited, but who are also going to highlight some of the incredible work that they do.

So thank you.