After serving generations of undercredited high-school students, the city’s night-school program has gone quietly into the night.
City education officials yesterday said Evening High Schools, which offered 30,000 students night classes at 12 sites last year, would be replaced this fall by an “extended day” and weekend program operated by traditional high schools.
“It makes no sense for a principal to hand off a student to someone who has no connection to the kid,” said Andres Alonso, the city’s deputy chancellor for instruction. “Schools need to own their kids.”
He said Evening High was plagued by low attendance.