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City Council Speaker Quinn, Deputy Mayor Walcott and Schools Chancellor Klein launch GED COMPASS website

On July 27th, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn , as part of her effort to improve the GED system, announced the launch of GED COMPASS , a web portal that will centralize New York City’s General Educational Development (GED) testing seats and provide information on how to prepare for the GED test. Joining the Speaker in her announcement were Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Phil Weinberg, President, New York City Workforce Investment Board, Suzanne Lynn, Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Youth Community Development, Elyse Barbell from the Literary Assistance Center, literary expert and researcher Jacqueline Cook, Roderick Jenkins from the New York Community Trust, Mia Simon, Director of Special Initiatives from CUNY, Chair of the Education Committee, Robert Jackson, Council Members Annabel Palma, Gale Brewer, Jimmy Van Bramer and Maria Del Carmen Arroyo along with students who attend adult education and GED prep classes through the NYC Department of Education’s Office of Adult and Continuing Education.

GED COMPASS was developed in response to community concerns about the condition of the GED testing system and the abysmally low pass rate in New York City, as documented in "Our Chance for Change: A Four-Year Reform Initiative for GED Testing in New York City," a report by literacy expert Jacqueline Cook. The GED COMPASS will streamline the process of finding a test site or prep program and centralize registration for the limited GED testing seats for the 1.6 million people in New York City who don’t have a high school diploma. Currently, the GED preparation and testing system is complicated and many students find the process daunting because they don’t know where to get information about obtaining a GED or prepare for the test.

GED COMPASS can be accessed at www.GEDCOMPASS.com . Anyone in New York City who does not have a high school diploma should go to this site to get more information on how to prepare for the test and register for it.To read the press release from the GED COMPASS launch, please click here .

Press coverage of the GED COMPASS, featuring interviews with OACE students, includes:

New York 1, New Website Provides Learning Tools For GED Seekers
New York 1 Noticias, Nueva portal busca mejorar el sistema de educación para adultos
Gotham Gazette, New Direction for the GED
News 12, New Website Created to Help People Receive Their GEDs
Epoch Times (article is in Chinese)
Sing Tao (article is in Chinese)
World Journal (article is in Chinese)

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