Closing schools serve students with greater needs, report says | GothamSchools

Closing schools serve students with greater needs, report says | GothamSchools

Closing schools serve students with greater needs, report says

by Maura Walz

The 25 schools the city is trying to close are low-performing, but their students are among the city’s most challenging — and are only getting needier over time.

Those are the findings of a report released today by the Independent Budget Office, the city’s data watchdog.

City officials argue that these low-performing schools should be closed because other schools serve similar student populations with better results. But critics of the closures often counter that the schools were set up to