A state Supreme Court judge has ruled that the city can’t shut down 19 schools, according to published reports.
Judge Joan Lobis’ ruling favored the teachers union and the NAACP in their case against the city.
The plaintiffs argued the city’s plan to close the schools violated a provision under the new mayoral school control law that requires officials to provide a detailed explanation of how the shuttering would affect local communities.
Lobis said the city “failed to provide the detailed analysis an impact statement mandates,” according to the Times.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have defended the closure of schools they say are failing.
While deliberating the case, Lobis put a hold on the city sending out letters telling eighth-graders which high school they’d attend.
Lobis’ decision permits the letters to go out to the nearly 80,000 students in limbo with the exception of the 8,500 students who applied to the high schools slated for closure, reports the Daily News.
Six large high schools were among the 19 on the chopping block, including Columbus in the Bronx, Jamaica and Beach Channel in Queens and Paul Robeson in Brooklyn.
(Source: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/)
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This is what liberalism does.
It is just another ploy by the corrupt Teachers Union to protect their own no matter how bad and lazy they are at their jobs.
They could not care less if the students don’t learn, as long as their worthless jobs are protected at taxpayer expense.
#1 – Don’t be so naive. The judge’s order was issued because DOE made this important decision without any community input and contrary to their obligations. Such a methodology is symbolic of Klein’s operations. Klein operates for statistics rather than for learning. The closings were toward that end too — Klein wanted better stats rather than an increase in learning achievement.