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62-600: During the 2014–15 school year, the PSAL distributed approximately $ 27 million to fund over 45,000 student-athletes at hundreds of New York City schools. The genesis of the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) came from the appointment in early 1903 of Luther Halsey Gulick as director of physical training for the New York public school system. Compared to other major cities, the athletics program for

124-479: A $ 10,000 grant and brought in the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain for student workshops, but after Alcala had done so, McCaskill repeatedly denied her access to the auditorium and gave her low performance rankings. Shortly after, Alcala left for Manhattan 's Murry Bergtraum High School , where she brought in $ 1,800 in grants for Shakespeare education; meanwhile, at Brooklyn Tech, there

186-588: A different formula (PI index) used to rank students according to their ranking preference of the majors and their current averages from freshman and sophomore year. A student with a higher PI index for their second preference if they did not get into their first, will get priority over another student with a lower average on the same major preference. Bret Stephens , an opinion columnist, wrote in The New York Times that "The success of Brooklyn Tech only casts an unflattering light on every other corner of

248-585: A fund-raising campaign to raise $ 10 million to support their alma mater financially through facilities upgrades, the establishment of curriculum enhancements, faculty training, and a university-type endowment . The endowment fundraiser, the first of its kind for an American public school, received front-page attention in The New York Times and sparked a friendly competition amongst the specialized high schools, with both Bronx Science and Stuyvesant announcing their own $ 10 million campaigns within weeks of

310-558: A new position as an NYC Education Department senior advisor to help reduce the Absent Teacher Reserve . Throughout Asher's tenure, the school's reputation was sullied by several allegations of sexual harassment and assault of students by faculty members, resulting in the termination of Sean Shaynak (an aerospace engineering teacher hired by Asher) and the reassignment of English teacher and school newspaper advisor David Lo. Music teacher Marisa Cazanave abruptly resigned in

372-530: A power in cross country, golf, and soccer. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, new athletic powers came, such as Jefferson, Textile, Brooklyn Technical High School , Monroe, and Madison. Handball and fencing were added to the league program. The Great Depression of the 1930s cut somewhat into the PSAL program, and some sports were discontinued. The following is a list of the sports that the PSAL currently runs under its program. In August 2006, New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum released

434-589: A report titled "Making the Team: Gender Inequality in New York City PSAL Sports Teams." The report stated "all types of high schools favored boys sport teams opportunities" and that "the PSAL sports schedule discriminated against girls." It also stated that several women's sports were scheduled during the "off-season" of that sport, while the men's counterparts played during the traditional season. The report alleged that

496-1257: A second complaint with the US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights alleging that the PSAL continued to violate Title XI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by not providing students of color with equitable access to a diverse range of PSAL sports teams. On November 20, 2014, student-athlete Jason Puello sued the PSAL in New York State Supreme Court , alleging that the PSAL's age rules are "arbitrary and capricious." Listed below are PSAL students who are/were involved in professional or college athletics. Adali E. Stevenson High School Bronx High School of Science Wolverines Christopher Columbus Explorers DeWitt Clinton Governors Evander Childs Educational Campus Harry Truman Mustangs Herbert H. Lehman High School Lions James Monroe High School John F. Kennedy High School Morris High School Theodore Roosevelt High School Rough Riders William Howard Taft High School Luther Halsey Gulick Too Many Requests If you report this error to

558-433: A student level. Tech has a variety of community service clubs, such as Key Club , Red Cross Club, and BETA. Tech students put on a play each fall, and a musical each spring. There are two step teams, Lady Dragons and Organized C.H.A.O.S. The school has several Coordinators of Student Activities (COSA). A list of notable alumni of Brooklyn Technical High School is listed below. Brooklyn Technical High School also has

620-708: A technical career in industry. By 1922, Dr. Colston's concept was approved by the Board of Education, and Brooklyn Technical High School opened in a converted warehouse at 49 Flatbush Avenue Extension, with 2,400 students. This location, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge , is the reason the school seal bears that bridge's image, rather than the more obvious symbol for the borough, the Brooklyn Bridge . Brooklyn Tech would occupy one more location before settling into its site at 29 Fort Greene Place, for which

682-529: A unique Hall of Fame, which lists alumni who have contributed significantly to STEM . Such alumni are noted below. The Brooklyn Tech Cheerleading Squad appeared in the 1988 Spike Lee film School Daze , and a video for the movie, entitled " Da Butt ", was shot at Brooklyn Tech. Lee also used the first floor gymnasium as a shooting location for Jesus Shuttlesworth's, played by Ray Allen , Sportscenter preview in He Got Game . . School interiors for

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744-717: Is a public high school in New York City that specializes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics . It is one of the three original specialized high schools operated by the New York City Department of Education , along with Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx High School of Science . Admission to Brooklyn Tech involves taking the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test and scoring

806-524: Is based exclusively on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), open to all eighth-grade and first-time ninth-grade New York City students. The test has math (word problems and computation) and verbal (reading comprehension and grammar) sections. Of the approximately 30,000 students taking the SHSAT for September 2011 admission, with 23,085 students listing Brooklyn Tech as a choice on their application, about 1,951 offers were made (the most of any of

868-481: Is based on the following criteria, which is cumulative: Brooklyn Tech has been considered a prestigious high school in the United States. Together with Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science , it is one of the three original Specialized High Schools of New York City , operated by the New York City Department of Education , all three of which The Washington Post cited in 2006 as among

930-452: Is the list of majors at Brooklyn Tech. Students are placed into a major during the second semester of their sophomore year after ranking all the majors in order of preference. These majors include courses, typically Advanced Placement or Project Lead the Way (PLTW) courses, that concentrate in that specific area of interest given to students during their last two years at Tech. Each major has

992-464: The High School for Math, Science and Engineering (HSMSE), as interim acting principal. Asher had previously served as Brooklyn Tech's assistant principal in mathematics from 2000 to 2002 before leaving to become founding principal of HSMSE. During his time as principal, the total student enrollment increased from 4,200 to 5,700. In the beginning of January 2017, Asher abruptly left Tech to take on

1054-526: The Long Island Rail Road . Additionally, New York City Bus 's B25 , B26 , B38 and B52 routes stop near Brooklyn Tech. Students residing a certain distance from the school are provided full-fare or half-fare student MetroCards for public transportation on their first day of school at BTHS, as well as the first day of each school term onward. Brooklyn Tech uses a college-style system of majors, unusual for an American high school. Below

1116-606: The Materials Science department, and closed the seventh-floor foundry. In the mid-1980s, a violent street gang known as the Decepticons were founded at Brooklyn Tech. As well, in 2000, the city issued a special report concerning the lack of notification to law enforcement during a string of robberies within the high school, including armed robbery with knives and stun guns. In March 1998, an alumni group led by Leonard Riggio , class of 1958, announced plans for

1178-646: The New York City Department of Education launched an investigation of McCaskill on February 2, 2006, concerning unpaid enrollment of New Jersey resident McCaskill's daughter in a New York City public school, which is illegal for non-residents of the city. Dr. McCaskill produced a lease claiming that he rented an apartment in Brooklyn, but the copyright date on the lease was after the signatures were dated. On February 6, McCaskill announced his resignation from Brooklyn Tech and agreed to pay $ 19,441 in restitution. A week later special commissioner Richard J. Condon rebuked

1240-448: The 1909–10, lacrosse was added and, after World War I, golf, handball, fall rifle marksmanship, and ice hockey were added. Football was not a part of the league's program in its early years. The PSAL chose not to sponsor football, because the intent of the league was to involve the average athlete in athletics, and football was considered a sport for athletic elites. The Long Island, Metropolitan, and various borough leagues continued to run

1302-550: The 1920s, New Utrecht take most of the indoor and outdoor titles. Queens produced Jamaica (in ice hockey and rifle marksmanship), Richmond Hill (in golf), and Flushing (in cross country and track and field). Besides Clinton, the Bronx could boast of Morris, which dominated rifle marksmanship early on and took several national championships, and also did well in soccer and tennis. Evander Childs did well in golf, rifle, swimming, and tennis. On Staten Island (Richmond Borough), Curtis became

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1364-407: The 2021 U.S. News & World Report "Best High Schools" list, making it the highest ranked Specialized High School. In 2008, Newsweek listed it among five public high schools that were not in the magazine's 13 "Public Elite" ranking, explaining, " Newsweek ' s Challenge Index is designed to recognize schools that challenge average students, and not magnet or charter schools that draw only

1426-1095: The Brooklyn Tech announcement. In November 2005, the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Association announced the completion of the fundraising phase of what they had termed the Campaign for Brooklyn Tech. In April 2008, the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation launched a second endowment campaign. Sixteen alumni died in the September 11 attacks in 2001. They are Dennis Cross '59, Ronald F. Orsini '60, Joel Miller '63, Sheldon R. Kanter '66, Stephen Johnson '75, Danny Libretti '76, Dominick E. Calia '79, Dipti Patel '81, Andre Fletcher '82, Courtney W. Walcott '82, Gerard Jean Baptiste '83, Wai C. Chung '84, Paul Innella '85, Michael McDonnell '85, Thomas Tong '87, and Paul Ortiz '98. Since 2001, Brooklyn Tech has undergone refurbishing such as

1488-520: The Department of Education for allowing McCaskill to retire, still collecting $ 125,282 in accrued vacation time, just days before the OSI completed its investigation. Condon also recommended that Cathy Furman McCaskill, the principal's wife, be dismissed from her position as a teacher at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn for her part in submitting fake leases and other fraudulent documents to indicate

1550-656: The Elementary Games committee and one member of each district league served on the High School Games committee. These committees governed all general matters pertaining to the league. Championships were held at the district, borough, and city levels. By 1914, the Board of Education was fully funding the PSAL. The league began with an athletic extravaganza held at Madison Square Garden on December 26, 1903. It involved 1,040 boys, mostly elementary school students, in basketball and track and field events. Among

1612-573: The NYCDOE provided inadequate opportunities for female high school sports compared to those for males. The complaint alleged many public high schools in the city did not offer any girls teams in several sports, a violation of Title IX. Other urban school districts involved in the suit included those of Chicago and Houston . In 2015, the ensuing federal investigation concluded that the NYCDOE violated Title IX by failing to provide an equal opportunity for female students to participate in sports. In May 2014,

1674-557: The New York State Legislature as specialized high schools of New York City. The act called for a uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant. The exam would become known as the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) and tested students in Math and English. With its statewide recognition, the school had to become co-educational . Previous to this, Brooklyn Tech

1736-488: The New York boroughs were backwards, underdeveloped, and rife with corruption. Gulick found "semi-truant" boys playing baseball for schools they did not attend, and that there was much unsportsmanlike conduct and dishonesty on the playing fields. Only a small percentage of actual students participated in athletics. He saw a serious need for reform and devised a grandiose plan to form a new league—the PSAL—that would involve most of

1798-584: The PSAL received sanction by the board of education, it was set up as a private corporation that would not receive public tax money. The founders of the league recruited the businessmen of New York City to serve on the league's board of directors and also become paying members of the league, and also solicited contributions from prominent benefactors. The league was organized into 22 districts (expanded to 25 by 1910), in which each district league administered athletic programs for elementary and high schools within their district. One member of each district league served on

1860-785: The PSAL was in violation of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . In 2009 the PSAL moved girls' soccer from the spring to the fall season, lining up with the boys' soccer season, after the threat of a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three athletes. In 2010, the National Women's Law Center filed a lawsuit with the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education , claiming that

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1984-469: The addition of rifle marksmanship, swimming, tennis, and baseball. The expanded activity of the PSAL served to kill off all the previous leagues by 1908. Rowing was added in the spring of 1907, and several schools, mainly Commerce and Clinton, competed each Memorial Day in the Harlem Regatta. The schools had difficulty getting the use of shells, however, and in 1915 the PSAL withdrew sponsorship. In

2046-559: The best students in their areas. These [...] were excluded from the list of top high schools because [...] their sky-high SAT and ACT scores indicate they have few or no average students". In 1918, Dr. Albert L. Colston, chair of the Math Department at Manual Training High School, recommended establishing a technical high school for Brooklyn boys. His plan envisioned a heavy concentration of math , science, and drafting courses with parallel paths leading either to college or to

2108-517: The class of 2010, each student must meet the following requirements by the end of their senior year to receive a Brooklyn Tech diploma: I. A minimum of 50 hours of community service outside of the school or through specified club activities. II. A minimum of 32 club credits earned through participation in Tech clubs, teams, and/or participation in designated school related events. The maximum amount of credits that can be earned per club, team, or event

2170-400: The classrooms for the first time, thanks to the 420-foot WNYE-TV tower atop Brooklyn Tech. For the school year beginning in the last half of 1970, young women began attending; all three NYC specialized and test-required science high schools were now coeducational. In 1972, Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science , Stuyvesant High School , and High School for Performing Arts become incorporated by

2232-619: The country's best magnet schools (a category the school is often placed in, though its founding predates the concept of a "magnet school", whose intended purpose was not the same). Admission is by competitive examination . As a public school, BTHS has no tuition fee , but only students who reside in New York City are allowed to attend, as per the Hecht-Calandra Act. Brooklyn Tech ranked 2nd in New York State on

2294-535: The cutoff for Brooklyn Tech. Each November, about 30,000 eighth and ninth graders take the 3-hour test for admittance to eight of the nine specialized high schools. About 1,400 to 1,500 students are admitted each year. Brooklyn Tech counts top scientists, inventors, innovators, Fortune 500 company CEOs and founders, high-ranking diplomats, academic scholars, literary and media figures, professional athletes, National Medal recipients, Nobel laureates , and Olympic medalists among its alumni. Admission to Brooklyn Tech

2356-559: The faculty and Principal McCaskill, "spilled into the open in October, with news reports that several teachers accused him of repeatedly sending sexually explicit e-mail messages from his school computer to staff members." While the article praised him for his addition of music and sports programs, it mostly described the principal as autocratic , controlling the school "largely through fear and intimidation," and documented acts of personal vindictiveness toward teachers; severe censorship of

2418-408: The fall of 1919, but no official championships were recognized. The newspapers crowned the borough champions in football. The premier athletic powers in the league were spread over the boroughs and in the different sports. In the Bronx one of the premier powers was DeWitt Clinton, which took more than its share of trophies in the basketball, swimming, track and field, tennis, and football. In Manhattan

2480-429: The fall of 2016 when faced with charges of having an inappropriate relationship with a male student. The school was also rocked by allegations of racism against black students and Asher faced mounting student pressure on social media to fix the situation. Following Asher's departure, former assistant principal David Newman took on the new position as acting principal of the specialized high school. In February 2020, Newman

2542-527: The family lived in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn. The next day, the Department of Education announced that it would fire her. After retiring from Brooklyn Tech, McCaskill became principal of Hillside High School in New Jersey, where in 2013, he resigned following accusations he spanked a female student. On February 7, 2006, the Department of Education named Randy Asher, founding principal of

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2604-616: The first Tech alumnus to hold that position. The following year, Tech received the Excellence in Education award from the U.S. Department of Education . The Alumni Association was formally created during this time, and coalitions were formed with the New York City Department of Transportation. Mandery oversaw the addition of a Bio-Medical major to the curriculum. John Tobin followed as principal in 1987, abolished

2666-419: The football championships for a couple or so years. In the fall of 1905, the New York newspapers began crowning schools with the titular "Greater New York" championship in football. This procedure lasted until about the fall of 1913, when the number of football contenders made it impossible to schedule sufficient games to decide on one champion. Finally, the PSAL began sponsoring football competition by boroughs in

2728-630: The founder of the Small Schools Athletic League, David Garcia-Rosen, filed a civil rights complaint with the United States Department Of Education against the PSAL, alleging that they were in violation of Title XI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaint included dozens of charts that illustrated students who attend schools with the highest percentages of students of color had the fewest opportunities to participate in PSAL sports, while

2790-413: The groundbreaking was held in 1930. Atypical for American high schools, Brooklyn Tech uses a system of college-style majors. The curriculum consists of two years of general studies with a technical and engineering emphasis, followed by two years of a student-chosen major. The curriculum remained largely unchanged until the end of Dr. Colston's 20-year term as principal in 1942. Upon his retirement, Tech

2852-419: The high schools, Commerce won the track and field meet and Flushing won the basketball tournament. In the spring, the league held its first outdoor high school track and field championship, won by Brooklyn Boys. Each year thereafter the high school league expanded by adding citywide championships in additional sports. In the school year of 1906–07, cross country and soccer was added, and the 1907–08 school year saw

2914-416: The official school newspaper. Tech has a literary art journal, Horizons, for those who want to express themselves through art, poetry, photography, and prose. The Model United Nations provides students with a venue for discussing foreign affairs and also hosts a conference each year called TechMUN. Other clubs cater to a wide range of topics such as public transportation (notably Tech Transit Association ,

2976-778: The public school bureaucracy." Brooklyn Tech fields 30 junior-varsity and varsity teams in the Public School Athletic League (PSAL). The school's historic team name has been the Engineers. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school's more than 100 organizations include the Brooklyn Tech Amateur Radio Club (club station call sign W2CXN), Civil Air Patrol Brooklyn Tech Cadet Squadron, chess , debate , football , wrestling, forensics (speech), hockey, mock trial , robotics, and rowing teams and clubs, and The Survey, [2]

3038-426: The renovation of the school's William L. Mack Library entrance, located on the fifth-floor center section. As well, two computer labs were added. The school also reinstated a class devoted to the study of Shakespeare, which students can elect to take in their senior year. Dr. Lee D. McCaskill , the appointed principal in 1992, served for 14 years, during which Tech saw the installation of more computer classrooms and

3100-565: The school's first of such clubs since 1964), anime , the Stock Market, Dance Dance Revolution , ultimate Frisbee , politics , quilting , fashion , debate (which offers Public Forum, Congress and Policy), table tennis and animal rights . The cheerleading squad is named the Enginettes. In 2012, Tech students created a Junior State of America Chapter at their school. Brooklyn Tech has its own student union, to address issues on

3162-417: The schools with the most white students had as many as 44 PSAL teams. The New York Times called the PSAL's response to this complaint a "statistical delusion." At a May 28, 2014, City Council budget hearing, 100 students wearing jerseys inside out presented Deputy Chancellor Grimm with thousands of petitions demanding equitable access to the PSAL for students of color. In November 2014, Garcia-Rosen filed

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3224-499: The specialized high schools, partly due to the school's size). Per the New York State graduation requirements, students can earn a local diploma, a Regents diploma, or an advanced Regents diploma. To earn a Brooklyn Tech diploma, students must meet "service credit" requirements (which can be dated to at least the 1950s and likely earlier) in addition to the Advanced Regents Diploma requirements. Beginning with

3286-530: The student newspaper and of assigned English texts, including the refusal to let the Pulitzer Prize -finalist novel Continental Drift by Russell Banks be used for a class; and of bureaucratic mismanagement. A follow-up column in 2004 found that there was increased teacher exodus, specifically documenting Principal McCaskill's campaign against Alice Alcala, who described as one of the city's leading Shakespeare teachers. Alcala had won Brooklyn Tech

3348-536: The student population, grade school and high school, and working with two influential New Yorkers—General George W. Wingate (a member of the City Board of Education) and James E. Sullivan (secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union)—presented it in October 1903 to the superintendent of schools, William H. Maxwell. He, with the concurrence of the school board, approved of Gulick's plan. Although

3410-431: The swimming pool at Brooklyn Tech while swimming with his day-camp group. The next year, more than 30 graduating Seniors in the school (including many student leaders) complained that Tech's curriculum was old and outdated. Their primary complaint was that the curriculum was geared toward the small minority of students who were not planning on attending college. In 1967, the schools of New York City got to view television in

3472-619: The switch from the traditional mechanical drawing by hand to teaching the use of computer-aided design programs. In 2000, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for the NYC School District wrote a report condemning Brooklyn Technical High School administrators for failing to report several armed robberies that took place in the bathrooms and stairwells. In 2003, The New York Times published an investigative article that noted "longstanding tensions" between

3534-540: Was All Boys, and had a sister school, Bay Ridge High School which was all girls. In 1973, Tech celebrated its 50th anniversary with a dinner-dance at the Waldorf Astoria . To further commemorate the anniversary, a monument was erected, with a time capsule beneath it, in the north courtyard. The monument has eight panels, each with a unique design representing each of Tech's eight majors at that point. In 1983, Matt Mandery's appointment as principal made him

3596-419: Was Stuyvesant, which rivaled Clinton in basketball, swimming, and track and field, and Commerce, which rivaled Clinton in basketball and football. Townsend Harris produced more than its share of swimming championships. In Brooklyn, Manual Training succeeded Long Island League alumnus Brooklyn Boys' as the borough's power. Another Long Island League alumnus, Erasmus Hall, emerged as a football and swimming power. In

3658-402: Was added later. Principal Pabst retired in 1964. A railroad club was established by the late Vincent Gorman, a social studies teacher, and students attended fan trips, tours of rail repair facilities and participated in the restoration of steam engine #103 and a historic rail passenger car at the former Empire State Railroad Museum. In August 1965, a ten-year-old boy named Carl Johnson drowned in

3720-499: Was appointed principal. The school, built on its present site in 1932 at a cost of $ 6 million, is 12 stories high, and covers over half a city block. Brooklyn Technical High School is directly across the street from Fort Greene Park. Facilities at BTHS include: The New York City Subway 's Fulton Street ( G train) and Lafayette Avenue ( C train) stations are located nearby, as well as more BMT and IRT services at DeKalb Avenue and Atlantic Terminal , which also serves

3782-682: Was led briefly by acting principal Ralph Breiling, who was succeeded by Principal Harold Taylor in 1944. Tech's modernization would come under Principal William Pabst, who assumed stewardship in 1946 after serving as chair of the Electrical Department. Pabst created new majors and refined older ones, allowing students to select science and engineering preparatory majors including Aeronautical , Architecture , Chemical , Civil , Electrical (later including Electronics and Broadcast), Industrial Design , Mechanical , Structural , and Arts and Sciences. A general College Preparatory curriculum

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3844-420: Was no longer any course solely devoted to Shakespeare, according to the column. In two newspaper articles in 2005, it was revealed that a $ 10,000 grant obtained by Dr. Sylvia Weinberger in 2001 to refurbish the obsolete radio studio remained unused. New classroom computers were covered in plastic rather than installed because the classrooms had yet to be wired for them. The Office of Special Investigations of

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