After panel on school choice, critique of city’s system of schools
Chancellor Dennis Walcott is interviewed by WNYC's Brian Lehrer at a forum on public school options.
Many of the parents and teachers attending a forum last night about school choice said it was their first time hearing Chancellor Dennis Walcott talk about the Bloomberg administration’s school policies.
Walcott defended the school choice model that has developed during Bloomberg’s tenure at the event, which was organized by the New York Times and WNYC in conjunction with their SchoolBook reporting project.
(Listen to WNYC’s coverage of the event.)
The event took place against the backdrop of a spate of school closures announced by the Department of Education earlier in the day. The city’s closure strategy, meant to clear space for better school options, has in
