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Schooling in the Ownership Society: A court victory for charter operators, a loss for civil rights groups and unions

Schooling in the Ownership Society: A court victory for charter operators, a loss for civil rights groups and unions

A court victory for charter operators, a loss for civil rights groups and unions

In a defeat for the NYC teachers, parents and civil rights groups, Supreme Court Justice Paul Feinman denied the UFT and NAACP’s request for a preliminary injunction preventing the D.O.E. from closing 22 schools and co-locating 15 charter schools in regular public school buildings. Feinman.ruled that Mayor Bloombeg,Chancellor Dennis Wolcott were free to move ahead with plans to close more neighborhood schools and move the place 15 privately-run charter schools in the buildings of neighborhood schools this year.

The N.A.A.C.P. had joined with the union in the suit, which among its other claims, said that the city had