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Charter transfer students and advocates push to include all transfer seats in Learning to Work as DOE readies new RFP
Summary
Students and charter transfer school leaders urged the council and DOE to expand Learning to Work funding to include charter transfer schools and to baseline the roughly $31 million now provided annually. DOE said it will issue a new LTW RFP "by November" and outlined current funding and contracting through 19 CBOs.
Students from charter transfer schools, charter school leaders and city advocates urged the City Council to ensure the next Learning to Work (LTW) request for proposals includes charter transfer schools and more baseline funding.
Students’ testimony: Several students from transfer charter schools said exclusion from LTW deprives them of paid internships and career supports. Seventeen‑year‑old Josiah Irizarry, a student at Urban Dove Charter School, told the committee he was accepted into a transfer charter school after being turned away from a district transfer school and that "when I got to Urban Dove and…
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