Also the teachers will work longer hours and assume more duties than the normal NY teacher, and the students will tend to be from the lower socioeconomic levels.
These folks are clueless, and worse, they are dangerous.
Unless there is an incentive pay scale, this is nothing more than a different way to extract more money from the taxpayers and transfer it to teachers pockets. At the children’s expense.
So they are going to only take the top 10% as measured by testing? Big friggin deal. How about getting someone from industry who knows the subject at hand? How about getting teachers who have proven they can teach? No, lets keep selecting teachers they way we’ve been selecting them for decades.
BECAUSE, this is about setting up a PC school that “caters to the poor people”, not to those who can excel.
This kind of feeling instead of thinking is why the United States school system is an unmitigated disaster.