Posted on July 18, 2024

To support a pilot program aimed at improving equitable enrollment in the City University of New York College Now Program, in particular disproportionately low enrollment rates for Black and Latinx males, students with disabilities, and multilingual learners. This pilot will develop and roll out new features in the Portal (their unique tool for school management), which already has data-sharing capabilities and agreements with CUNY and New York City public high schools that will both centralize and streamline the enrollment process in CUNY College Now, a dual enrollment program that enables students to earn college credit for rigorous courses taken while still in high school. By easing the process of enrollment and providing a way for schools to proactively reach out to eligible students to encourage and support the enrollment process, this new initiative will give more students a successful start towards obtaining a college degree. New Visions for Public Schools serves as a laboratory of innovation within NYC’s public-school reform efforts, creating and refining helpful new approaches to systemic challenges.