New Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott greeted by parent suit vs. charter
Monday, April 11th 2011, 4:00 AM
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Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott replaced Cathie Black.In a first major challenge to incoming Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, parents are suing to block the city's plan to let a Manhattan high school share space with a charter school.
The largely technical lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court, attacks the city for undercounting the number of students at the Brandeis High School campus - and overestimating the room available for Upper West Success, a charter elementary school.
"We don't want our children to be treated like second-class citizens in their own
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