After running as a pilot program in a few dozen schools this year, a push known as FutureReadyNYC will be expanded to roughly a quarter of all public high schools and introduce teens to fields from technology to health care.
“At the heart of what we want to accomplish is exposure,” Adams said at a news conference in Google’s Chelsea headquarters.
Through the program, more than 100 public high schools this fall will offer early college credit through the City University of New York, paid work experience, mentorship, and one-to-one career advising.
The city will spend $19 million across participating schools, divvied up by how many grades are rolling out the program. Principals who offer the initiative in all four high school grades could receive up to $470,000, officials said.
Schools were selected through a “competitive” application process, and received more applications than the city had slots in the initiative.
FutureReady ties into a broader administration goal to make the classroom more relevant to the real world and bolster career education, including private-sector apprenticeships for young people and summer youth employment programs.
“Far too many schools all across America are engaged in a process that we call schooling, which is very different than educating,” said School Chancellor David Banks. “Schooling just talks about the routine of going to school.”
At their headquarters, Google announced it will offer a certificate in data analytics to help students prepare for jobs and teacher training ahead of next school year.
The tech behemoth will also be the inaugural partner for a CUNY program that promotes gender and racial equity in the industry through new curriculum and paid internships, officials said.
“This is something that goes to the root of that problem,” said CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez, “because you are not going to be able to change the composition of any workforce … unless you have intentional efforts.”
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