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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Lynne Winderbaum on the destruction of large Bronx High Schools

NYC Public School Parents: Lynne Winderbaum on the destruction of large Bronx High Schools:

Lynne Winderbaum on the destruction of large Bronx High Schools


Five major high schools in the Bronx received "Fs" today from the DOE; including the last remaining large schools in the borough. Here is Glenn Tepper's story of the decline of Jane Addams Vocational High School, which was once the second highest performing school in the borough, but which was brought down by the Bloomberg administration's preferential treatment of the new small schools. Below is the account of the foreordained demise of DeWitt Clinton High School, another once excellent school, in the words of Lynne Winderbaum, former UFT Bronx district leader:

I know you need no reminder of how the relentless march of high school closings in the Bronx have created