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Manhattan Borough Scott Stringer along with the United Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, the NAACP, and 16 other elected officials filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Education for planning to close 19 low-performing schools. The lawsuit claims that the Department of Education violated state law by not analyzing the impact of each school closure on the community.
“I don’t know any other way to get the attention of the DOE,” said Borough President Stringer.
The preliminary statement of the lawsuit calls the Department of Education’s inability to comply with state mandates “a deliberate failure.” It claims that the DOE has “seemingly given up” on these “high needs students” and are “arrogantly convinced that they are above [the law].”
City council members said that the schools in jeopardy of being shut down in their districts were not given the chance to improve.
Click here to read a New York Times’ City Room report on the lawsuit
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