UPPER EAST SIDE — The schools chancellor Friday welcomed hundreds of AmeriCorps members who will serve thousands of New York City students this school year through the City Year program, aimed at tutoring and supporting underprivileged students.
The group said 254 City Year members will serve over 4,500 students at 22 lower and middle schools, six of which are in Manhattan, in hopes of helping them improve English and math performances and to work toward graduation.
All of the Manhattan schools served by the program are in East Harlem: P.S./M.S. 50, P.S./M.S. 57, P.S. 83, M.S. 45, P.S. 112/206 and J.H.S. 13.
"As tutors, mentors and role models to the students in 22 New York City public schools, our City Year AmeriCorps members are the human capital solution, that give schools the resources they need to be successful,” City Year New York Executive Director Itai Dinour said in a statement.
According to the program, the group has served over 16,500 children since 2003. Nearly 90 percent of the third through fifth grade students who received assistance from their program improved their literacy scores in 2010.
City Year began Aug. 15 but the program members were honored at a kickoff ceremony at Hunter College on Friday.
