Mayoral Candidates and Education Leaders Discuss School Closure Policy
Panel Members Release Report, Recommend Alternatives to Bloomberg Administration’s Close-and-Replace Policies
(New York, NY – April 17, 2012) – Leading candidates for mayor – Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson – joined education leaders from the Working Group on School Transformation today to release a report (click here to download report) on Mayor Bloomberg’s school closure policy and recommend alternatives as part of a breakfast forum on education at New York University’s Kimball Hall Lounge.
Councilmember Robert Jackson, Chair of the Education CommitteeThe mayor’s controversial school closings policy and approach to struggling schools has been met with increasingly harsher criticism from communities and elected officials, and lower approval ratings from voters over the last few years. In response, the forum’s panelists – including the mayoral candidates, City Council Education Chair Robert Jackson, former DOE Deputy Chancellor Carmen Farina and NYU Professor Pedro
(New York, NY – April 17, 2012) – Leading candidates for mayor – Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson – joined education leaders from the Working Group on School Transformation today to release a report (click here to download report) on Mayor Bloomberg’s school closure policy and recommend alternatives as part of a breakfast forum on education at New York University’s Kimball Hall Lounge.
Councilmember Robert Jackson, Chair of the Education Committee