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The Making of a Company Town 26%

24%

30% 20%

7%

7%

10% 0%

1965

1999

New Haven Jobs at Yale New Haven Manufacturing Jobs

Yale is New Haven’s:

Biggest Employer Largest Property Owner Dominant Educational Institution

“The Board of Education should be congratulated for doing a good job with limited resources. The magnet school program has attracted significant federal and state funding. The school construction program has attracted additional state funding.�

- CCNE, Schools Taxes & Jobs, page 2

New Haven’s Test Scores CMT Index, 6th Grade, 2000-01 100 80 60 40 20 0 Math State Average

Writing CT Urban Average

Reading New Haven

Class Size 24

22.5 22

20.6 20

19.2

20.8

19.5

18.1 18

16

14

Kindergarten State Average

Grade 2 CT Urban Average

New Haven

“Project Challenge� School Districts

Percentile rankings, before and after class size reduction.

Note: 50th percentile is statewide average

59

60 50

44 39

40 30

29

20 10 0 1990 2nd Grade Reading

1993 2nd Grade Math

The barriers to reducing class size • Hiring Teachers Connecticut has a surplus of elementary level teachers, who would love to teach kids if someone would hire them.

(There is a statewide shortage of high school specialists.)

• Building Classrooms The State is funding 86% of the $1 billion of planned New Haven school construction. If the City lined up an institutional partner to fund salaries for new teachers, the State could help line up funding for classroom construction.

Cost of Hiring New Teachers to Reduce Class Size Reduce K-3 class size to:

19 18 17 16 15

# New Teachers Needed

Annual Cost (in 2001 dollars)

43 $2.02 million 63 $2.93 million 84 $3.95 million 109 $5.10 million 137 $6.40 million

Can New Haven find an institutional partner to fund new teacher salaries to reduce class size?

The Cost of Yale’s Tax Exemption to New Haven 40 11

30

12.7 15.4

15.6

7.3

25

20

12.5

23.8

24.3

20.5 15.8

15.8

1.5

1.7

1.7

2

2.1

2.1

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

10

0

Paid by Yale

Pd. By CT taxpayers

Unreimbursed

Yale’s Tax Payments in Perspective 4.9

$5 4

$4

$3

$2

1.9

2

Taxes to NH

Taxes to NYC

$1

$0 Meals & Ent.

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Harvard vs. Yale

(payments in $ millions) $15

$6.1

$10

$5

$1.9

$7.2

$2.1 $0

Yale Univ.

Voluntary Payments

Harvard Univ Taxes on Commercial Property

Land: What Others Have Done University of Pennsylvania: Stanford University:

Built school on its own land, and contributes $700,000 annually towards operating expenses Has five public schools located on its own land, which it contributes to the public schools system

Yale’s Planning Framework YNHH

Yale Med School

Prince & Welch Schools today

Future site of PrinceWelch Annex

“Development of [this] area as a gateway area to the Medical School”

“Completion of the new Medical School building on Congress St. and development of adjacent sites for future uses”

“Development of the unbuilt parcels surrounding 100 Church St South to create active frontages along Cedar St and Columbus Ave.”

The developer who has the contract to develop Prince & Welch Schools also turned Lee H.S. into Yale’s Nursing School

“Redevelopment of the Church St. South urban renewal area to create direct connections to the train station from the Medical Center and downtown”

Some Yale Numbers Total Size of Yale’s Endowment:

$10,700,000,000

Average Daily Growth for Yale Endowment:

$5.4 million/day

Cost of Yale’s tax exemption to the city:

$12.5 million/yr

Cost of new salaries for class size reduction:

$2-6.4 million/yr

New Haven Workers at Yale

80

60

40

20

0 Unskilled

Semiskilled

Skilled Trades

C&T A

C&T B

C&T C

C&T D

African-Americans and Latino Representation at Yale University 80

60

40

20

0

% Latino/a

% African-American

Analysis: Yale’s Hiring Practices • Yale’s labor grades remain segregated, with minorities stuck in the less-skilled jobs.

• Yale needs to “open the gates” especially to Latino workers, to allow access to entrylevel jobs • Yale needs to progressively train its own workforce, so they could move up the ladder into higher skilled, higher wage jobs.

Analysis: Impact of Public Schools • New Haven’s public schools do not produce a workforce prepared for high-skill, highwage jobs.

• Workers in higher-wage jobs often leave New Haven in favor of superior suburban school systems.

• Yale could pay a fair share contribution to reduce class size, by topping up PILOT payments, or giving 1-2 days of annual endowment growth

Improving Public Schools is in Yale’s self-interest • Yale stronger when it spreads diversity of New Haven workforce to higher skilled jobs.

• Biotech companies that incubate in New Haven often leave before they start production or growth • A stronger local workforce contributes to a stronger Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Yale is New Haven’s:

Biggest Employer Largest Property Owner Dominant Educational Institution