At a press conference on Monday, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the City University of New York (CUNY) and IBM will open a new public high school, which combines high school with two years of college; students would earn an associate’s degree,

Sounds a bit like Bard High School Early College but maybe with a more technological bent. Graduating from this school will, according to Bloomberg, put students “first in line for a job at IBM,” Bloomberg said.

At the press conference Bloomberg also renewed his proposal to end automatic teacher tenure. Instead he wants tenure to be linked to classroom performance.