Stop the presses! Today, UFT, NAACP and parent groups filed suit to stop the school closings and charter co-locations. Lawsuit papers posted
here; here is a
NY1 story, about how "outraged" Dennis Walcott is; here is the
UFT press release. But the
best statement is from Ernie Logan, head of the principals union, who have supposedly "empowered" by DOE. Let's cross our fingers this lawsuit wins. But too bad Logan isn't empowered to make the decisions when it comes to closing schools!
“Chancellor Walcott is understandably outraged because students in our lowest-performing schools don’t have better options. But the underlying outrage should be, not that the UFT has filed suit to keep 20 schools open, rather that the DOE long ago chose to close schools
