Support, Not Trouble, for a School Successfully Teaching Students with Disabilities
September 15, 2017 | by Leonard Goldberg
A new report from the city's Comptroller showed once again that the City is unable to fulfill its responsibility to provide the necessary services to students with disabilities, failing to track $84 million allocated for disabled student services. Worse still, these findings come on the heels of the Public Advocate's report that revealed a troubling trend whereby the city offers parents vouchers instead of the necessary, required services for children with special needs. Troubling, but not surprising. Click to read Op-Ed
A new report from the city's Comptroller showed once again that the City is unable to fulfill its responsibility to provide the necessary services to students with disabilities, failing to track $84 million allocated for disabled student services. Worse still, these findings come on the heels of the Public Advocate's report that revealed a troubling trend whereby the city offers parents vouchers instead of the necessary, required services for children with special needs. Troubling, but not surprising. Click to read Op-Ed
Unlike any public school in New York City
We offer full health and dental care as well as vision screening to all of our students at no cost thanks to our partnership with The Children's Aid Society-Carrera Program. That's just one of the many great things happening at OCS.
We provide students with disabilities, from disadvantaged backgrounds, with the highest quality special education and comprehensive clinical services available in NYC.
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We operate an exceptional community-school model that helps students develop in all aspects of life.
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We administer an innovative college and career readiness program that prepares students to succeed beyond high school graduation.
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