Is DOE's Turnaround Fair Play? The NYS Assembly doesn't think so
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| Assemblymembers Cathy Nolan of Queens and Jim Brennan of Brooklyn |
Yesterday, the NY State Assembly Education Committee held a rare hearing in NYC on the state and city's implementation of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, the so-called “turnaround” schools, and how the entire program is in complete disarray.
The big news is that the city is determined to go ahead withturnaround model for 26 Persistently Low Achieving schools even if they receive any of the federal funds to do so. Turnaround is an euphemism for closing these schools, firing much of the staff and reopening them in the fall with new names There is massive confusion and no public input about the plans for these schools, and yet the city seems determined to close and reconstitute 26 schools, like lemmings, even at the city's taxpayers' expense. Why? Because they can. See Two Years In, Federal Grant Program To Improve Struggling City
The big news is that the city is determined to go ahead withturnaround model for 26 Persistently Low Achieving schools even if they receive any of the federal funds to do so. Turnaround is an euphemism for closing these schools, firing much of the staff and reopening them in the fall with new names There is massive confusion and no public input about the plans for these schools, and yet the city seems determined to close and reconstitute 26 schools, like lemmings, even at the city's taxpayers' expense. Why? Because they can. See Two Years In, Federal Grant Program To Improve Struggling City