Saturday, April 21, 2012

CM Barron Blast’s Co-location Proposals at Council Hearing [Video] « New York City Parents Union

CM Barron Blast’s Co-location Proposals at Council Hearing [Video] « New York City Parents Union:


CM Barron Blast’s Co-location Proposals at Council Hearing [Video]


The issue of co-locating charter and public schools in the same building is a contentious one, and at an education hearing discussing the topic yesterday afternoon, the first two Council Members to speak thoroughly attacked the proposals in their districts.
“Co-location has been nothing but chaos,” East New York Councilman Charles Barron declared while criticizing the poor graduation rate among black and Latino students. “If you go into some of the schools in our district, you will see that the battles around co-location are taking away from serious educational approaches to our children.”
He concluded his speech by saying, “I just want overall to say in my last five seconds, you’ve been a dismal failure no matter how much you want to come here with this kind of nonsense. Failure. Failure.”  Click here to read more.
Watch the video below.