Obama mention in State of Union sparks interest in new high school
When President Obama, in the midst of speaking about weighty national and international issues, mentioned Brooklyn’s P-Tech High School in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, many Brooklynites and others from the New York metro area suddenly perked up.
Many, if not most, suddenly wanted to know more about this school, which opened two years ago on the former Paul Robeson High School campus in Fort Greene.
“At schools like P-TECH in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York public schools, the City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering,” said Obama. “We need to give every American student opportunities like this.”