NYC announces 3 new early college high schools
Officials from IBM, Microsoft and the software maker SAP joined New York City education officials Thursday to announce three new early-college high schools that will confer both a high school diploma and a City University of New York associate degree.
The six-year schools are designed to steer students toward specific jobs in high-demand fields.
“It is a reinvention of high school in America,” said Stanley Litow, vice president of corporate citizenship for IBM, which teamed up with educators to start the first such school in 2011.