Sadness and Anger Over School Closings
The proverbial other shoe will drop on Friday, when as many as 10 more New York City public schools will be placed on a list to be closed, but already the fallout has begun after the city’s announcement on Thursday recommending a dozen school closings and the “truncation” of grades from three additional schools.
Gotham Schools dispatched its troops to some of the schools that will most likely be phased out over the next few years (it can be virtually assumed that the Panel for Educational Policy will rubber-stamp the Education Department’s suggested closings, and probably soon), and found disappointment.
Parents and educators from Public School 14 Cornelius Vanderbilt, the first school on Staten Island slated for closing since 2002, when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took over control of the city’s schools, are planning to hold a rally on Friday in front of borough hall, the Staten Island Advance reports.
“The staff is absolutely brokenhearted, and totally against the possibility that there’s going to be a
