Tech ed is helping city teens get a leg up on their futures.
Students are graduating from new career and technical-education schools at a far higher rate than those attending traditional public school, according to a Community Service Society study.
Tech students graduated at an 83.5 percent rate in 2012 from high schools that opened between 2004 and 2008, compared with 64.7 percent at public schools.
“This new study quantitatively confirms what we have known qualitatively for a long time: Career and Technical Education schools are an important part of delivering a world-class school system in New York City,” Department of Education spokeswoman Devora Kaye said Monday.
The schools have helped black and Latino students in particular make educational gains.Black students graduated from technical schools at a rate of 66.6 percent in 2012, compared with 59.8 percent of their citywide counterparts.