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Nine blocks. we ve had a front row seat on the way these nine blocks have become the very center of an education controversy. the issue at stake, which student will be assigned to which school. a new york-style microcosm of an enormous and emotional issue facing families across the country. in our family here in new york city, one of the schools is ps 199. it s a k-to-5 public elementary school where they rate higher than the citywide average in readinged an math. students at ps-199 don t just do better than the city average, they trounce it. 87% of third through fifth graders score. and 74% score a three or four on the state english exam. at ps-199, 66% of the students are white. ....
I value, i mean, we havecurricu. what i don t value is we have to raise money in order to get the same programs that the other schools have. so, for example, ps-199. we have to raise money in order to get extra assistance into classrooms. we have to raise money to get chess programs. we have to raise money to get all these extra activities. that is what i find to be the great equality. we are going to come to that issue as soon as we come back. i want to talk about the money part of this story. you want i fix this mess? a mess? i don t think what s that? snapshot from progressive. plug it in, and you can save on car insurance based on your good driving. you sell to me? no, it s free. you want to try? i try this if you try. not this. okay. ....
Their parents have means. the pta budget is in the hundreds of thousands. okay. now let s take a look at the school just nine blocks south. that school is ps-191. it s a pre-k to eighth grade public school that serves many students living in a nearby public housing development. here, just more than one-tenths of student pass the state reading and math test. 47% of the students are latino and 37% are african-american. 77% are eligible for free lunch. compared with just 7% over at the other school, ps-199. two schools, nine blocks apart. but, there were merely 100 kindergarten students on the waiting list at ps-199, making it the longest wait list in new york city this year. at ps-191, there are empty seats. seeking to address the imbalance this september, the new york city education department unveiled a proposal to redraw ....
Nearly 100 children for kindergarten waited at a spot at a school where 98% of students scored proficient or above in the state science exam. at the second school, ps-191, it serves many students who live in a nearby public housing development and is predominantly black and latino. this school has too many empty seats. the test scores are mostly lower than the citywide average. the parents of teacher organization for ps-199 raised more than $800,000 in one year. over the years, such hefty pta budgets have financed a science and technology teacher, visits from a chef and extras like automatic toilet flushers and bed bug detection in every classroom. p ps-191 s parent teacher organization raised $24,000 last year. it has announced it is trying to ....