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This week, Tech:NYC, with our partners at the Center for an Urban Future, published an ambitious report that makes a strong case for bold new steps to invest in, and improve, the city’s tech education and training programs.The project also includes the first-ever citywide map of NYC’s tech training and education programs, plus 70 in-depth profiles of K-12 and adult training programs that are helping prepare thousands more New Yorkers for the tech careers of the future.We wrote about it in today’s New York Daily News.

The fast-growing tech sector has become NYC's most reliable source of new, well-paying jobs. But while tech companies are hungry for talent and increasingly eager to hire locally, too few of those jobs in tech are going to New Yorkers from low-income communities.But as NYC’s tech skills-building ecosystem continues to expand, closing the opportunity gap is an achievable goal. As profiled by The New York Times, the report identifies at least 238 organizations operating 506 tech education and training programs across 857 locations in the five boroughs. These numbers don’t even include the impressive efforts underway in schools across the city that are part of CS4AllNYC.The report concludes that closing the opportunity gap in New York’s tech workforce will require city policymakers to make bold new investments in K-12 computing education, tech workforce programs that offer in-depth career-oriented training, and bridge programs that provide on-ramps to tech training for New Yorkers with fundamental skills needs.Here you can find more of the report’s key findings, plus a list of recommendations on how city officials can improve quality and expand access to tech education. We are extremely grateful for the support of our members and the larger NYC tech community, as well as the generous support of the funders that made this project possible: the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund, Google, Bloomberg, and Verizon.Julie