Teachers Union, NAACP to Sue Over School Shut-Downs

After hundreds protested last week as a Department of Education board moved to close 19 under-performing schools, the teachers union and NAACP are filing a lawsuit to reverse the decision. The union will argue that shuttering the schools violates state law because the decision fails to consider impact on the community. The NY NAACP signed on because the closures will hurt minority students, reported AP. But Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein are fighting back—they say the closings are warranted because the schools just aren't performing.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on February 1, 2010 3:25 PM

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wingedearth

The NAACP only cares because the parents in that community think of the school as a free day care.

Bernie Madoff-Goetz

Everyone involved is really just pissing in the wind and engaging in political theater because NONE of this addresses the real problem: bad parents.

nivek

It's a cycle. The only way to break out of it is from the parents side; the schools can't do anything if the kids have no motivation.

5borough

True. I attended some failing schools in NYC. It is a disgrace and adversely affects minorities more than any KKK group could ever hope to.

I wish these groups would go "help" and "stick up for" Al Queda the way they do for NYC's minority youth.

5borough

The schools will stay open under new names, with new administrations. I think this is what has happened to every closed school.

GalBklyn

Or maybe the Department of Education should do their job and start working to support the teachers and administrators on the ground. They don't and it is intentional. Consequently, each year, Bloomberg and Klein get to shut down schools for "failure to perform" and re-open in smaller formats - aka private profit charter schools.

In the private sector, performance is the result of effort AND support of superiors and co-workers. This is straight up wrong. I'm hoping for success by the Union and NAACP to stop this madness.

Smitty025

In the private sector, performance is the result of effort AND support of superiors and co-workers.

If the private sectors works so well why are you opposed to Bloomberg supposedly shutting down schools so private ones can open? Obviously not everyone can afford it, but if there was some private school voucher program then it could work. (Is there such a program? I can't say public school issues are something i know much about.)

Ishtar

Maybe the NAACP should sue the parents for their lackluster involvement in their kids lives instead.

FJF

Gee, maybe the city could afford to keep the schools open if they weren't paying the salaries and benefits of all those degenerates and pedophiles in the rubber rooms.

silver

America is a democracy, majority rules right? so why does everyone make a fuss over minorities and giving them special rights? America isn't a democracy then?