YRNES Report
THE YRNES REPORT 2008
The Youth Researchers For A New Education System (YRNES) is a “diverse group of youth from all over New York City (NYC) who have come together for a common goal: to be instruments of change in the NYC public school system.”
Their report summarizes a year of hard work planning their project, collecting their data, understanding the meaning those data, and synthesizing their efforts into a major contribution to the widening public discussion of what should replace mayoral control of the schools when its legislative mandate expires next year.
YRNES researchers began with two basic questions:
1) What are NYC youths’ perspectives on what is and is not provided in their schools?
2) What are NYC youths’ perspectives on school organization and leadership?
By the end of their project, they had not only documented the range of perspectives on these questions but had also touched on more fundamental topics of dignity, respect, and purpose and how they play out in the schools that are supposed to belong to the public.
The conclusions and opinions expressed in this report are those of the YRNES researchers.
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