"NEW YORK – Hundreds of students and parents gathered in front of New York City Hall last week to decry the $63 million “Remediation Tax” they were forced to pay after their public schools failed to prepare them for college.
“This ‘Remediation Tax’ affects 21,000 New York City college students who have graduated from city high schools but are unprepared for college-level coursework,” according to the StudentsFirstNY website.
“The $63 million Remediation Tax refers to the cost of remedial courses that college students are forced to take before they can enroll in classes that earn credit towards a degree.
This undue burden is imposed disproportionately on low- and middle-income New Yorkers who attend K-12 schools that fail to provide their graduates with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in college.”
The pro-charter school StudentsFirstNY published a reportThursday that shows the city school graduates spent an average of $3,000 a year to gain the basic knowledge they should have learned in high school.
“Students are forced to pick up the slack for a K-12 system that failed them — depleting whatever grants, scholarships, loans or personal resources they had planned to use to pay for college,” according to the report..."
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