The lawsuit just filed on behalf of the receivership schools
Wendy Lecker, one of the attorneys from the Education Law Center who sued the State Division of the Budget and the State Education Educationlast week for denying funds to struggling schools on behalf of parents, wrote this summary of the case below. Three of the schools are in NYC as explained below. More on how these schools intended to use these funds are here. Here is the verified petition.
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| Attorney Wendy Lecker |
On September 2, parents from Albany, Yonkers and New York City filed a lawsuit against the state seeking the release of receivership grant money that the Division of Budget is withholding from their children’s schools, as well as six other schools across the state.
In 2015, New York State passed Education law 211-f, known as the Receivership Law, which directed the Commissioner of Education to designate New York public schools as “persistently failing” based on test scores and other outcome data. Appropriations legislation also passed in 2015 directed that these “persistently failing” schools were eligible to receive $75 million in funding for two-year grants.
The appropriations law mandated that the State Education Department (“SED”) develop an expenditure plan for these “transformation grants,” that the Division of Budget (“DOB”) NYC Public School Parents: The lawsuit just filed on behalf of the receivership schools:
