New York City hopes small schools yield big results

New York City has added approximately 200 new schools over the past five years, according to an Associated Press news story by Nahal Toosi, excerpted here from the June 11 edition of The Boston Globe. The goal is to create small, specialized schools, primarily serving grades 6 through 12.

The specialized schools generally have fewer than 600 students and feature areas of study such as human rights, aerospace, violin and dance, peace and diversity, and food and finance. Much of the funding comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has spent $130 million in New York in the past five years supporting school reform.

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