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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing I'd love to see is a health specialty program where Ballou teams with United Medical Center (it's a 1.5 mile walk, but it could be shorter if they put a path to the back parking lot of UMC and there could be a shuttle).  The hospital does not need all its space and it does need a lot more money.  It could involve kids at various academic levels, from vocational training on medical coding, phlebotomy, CNA, etc. to AP math and science classes and biomedical/psych research.  Electives could include psychology, anatomy, health policy, etc.  Ballou is recently renovated, under capacity, and already has a strong evening adult ed program, so this would be a natural fit.

It is frankly going to take something amazing to get middle-class families to try Ballou, but I could see this working.  They'd have to really work on it though--partnerships with a university, great lab equipment, perhaps recruiting teachers from TJ, Montgomery Blair, Bronx Science, or other places that have really good science research programs, etc.

I've mentioned the idea to BB Otero (Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services) and really need to email David Catania, as education is his focus now but he's been very involved with United Medical Center.[/quote]

This is great.  I've heard CM Barry (I know, I know) talk about the city producing nurses like the Philippines. This would be a good place to start.[/quote]

I also remember Barry talking about that. I'll tweet a link to the the original post about Ballou to Barry (if you don't know, Barry has a great Twitter feed). Also, I am co-hosting a meet and greet for David Catania a week from tomorrow. I'll mention this idea to him then.
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Please do.  This is the PP who originally mentioned the Ballou/UMC idea.  I emailed him yesterday (also sent it to Abigail Smith, Kaya Henderson, BB Otero, and Yvette Alexander and realized when Catania's name popped up in "to" field that I had actually sent him an email about this in March 2013 (cc'ing Jennifer Leonard, who was the DME at that time).  Never got a response.  I don't have a lot of faith in DCPS doing this the way I envision.  I bet if anything happens it will be very vocationally focused (which is important too, as many health care jobs pay a living wage and can't be outsourced) without any of the science research or other aspects that would make it desirable to higher-achieving students.  But I would love to be proven wrong.[/quote]

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