Education Department Panel Votes To Close 10 New York City Schools

[proud2BlibKansan]

This time, it was the adults who had to be separated during a school fight.

After five and a half hours, hundreds of testimonies and one physical altercation, a city panel voted to close 10 New York City schools.

From the Daily News:

About 2,000 parents, students and teachers flooded the city Education Department's Panel for Educational Policy meeting about not only closing schools, but also about requiring existing buildings to share space with new schools.

In contrast to last year's closing vote, most of the crowd appeared to be charter school supporters, the majority from former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, who arrived by the busloads and held signs calling for "Bold Fast Change."

more . . . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/panel-votes-to-close-10-s_n_817443.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Education Department Panel Votes to Steal Public Schools to Give to Charter Schools.

Sort of eminent domain for public schools.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Bingo!1 Bloomberg's wet dream come true

[Angry Dragon]

3. Sliding down the slope to factory education

I enjoyed going to school,
I would not like to be a student today

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. It's very frustrating for us teachers

I want to bang my head into the wall about once a day.