Dinowitz asks DOE whether civic opportunities vary by poverty
Dinowitz asks whether DOE tracks which high schools offer civic participation opportunities and whether offerings differ by poverty level. Ryle says DOE does not have that data right now.
To earn the seal, students need at least two points in civic participation, which come from civics projects, service learning, civic engagement, electives, extracurriculars, and work-based learning.
Does the DOE track which high school offers the individual opportunities?
And do those offerings differ by the school's poverty level?
I don't believe we have the data right now to know whether the offerings for the specific opportunities differ by the school makeup.
But I think Chris can speak to the way that we are tracking what are the projects that each school is offering because either they are taking from
a vetted list of accredited projects or they are submitting a project for accreditation as part of their process for becoming a high school that offers the sealed civic readiness.
Yeah, so another part of our handbook for the seal for New York City public schools is our academic integrity procedure section.
And so that outlines the sort of accreditation policies that I'll be talking about, but to what Delia was just mentioning.
So we work with internal DOE offices and external organizations to accredit projects or electives for citywide use.
And those are available for any school to add to their school's programming.
But schools also can develop 2A civics projects or 2C civics electives that they submit instructional materials to us for review for.
And we match those against the specifications in the handbook to accredit them or not, or the 2F capstone, which is more of a sort of planning document.