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Friday, September 16, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: We take the city to court over charter co-locations!

NYC Public School Parents: We take the city to court over charter co-locations!:

We take the city to court over charter co-locations!


Here is an article about the court hearing fromGothamSchools, here is video from NY1; here is our updatedpress release.
Yesterday morning, parents, including Class Size Matters, the NYC Parents Union, and individual parent plaintiffs, took the city to court over charter co-locations, and the way in which DOE provides free space and service to charters for free, which we believe violates state law.
First, we had a press conference on the steps of the State Supreme Court. Then we took seats in Judge