Live-blogging the PEP: Bad weather not stopping closure protests
We’re stationed right now at Brooklyn Technical High School, where the Panel for Educational policy is meeting to vote on the fates of 11 schools the city wants to close. The panel will also vote on whether to allow half a dozen new schools to open.
For an overview of the schools under debate at tonight’s meeting, listen to this WNYC appearance by our own Maura Walz. Maura discussed what the schools slated for closure are saying in their own defense and how the city has responded to their argument for remaining open.
6:05 p.m. People have mostly stopped coming in to the auditorium, Anna reports. The lower part of the auditorium is full but the balcony is entirely empty, which wasn’t the case last year. DOE officials are taking