On February 3rd, hundreds of CEJ parents, students from the Urban Youth Collaborative, and teachers from the closing schools and across the city protested the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) vote to close 13 schools. The PEP is majority-controlled by Mayor Bloomberg, with a 100% approval rate on all of his proposals. Knowing that the hearing would not result in a fair decision about the fate of these schools, the people in the auditorium erupted, chanting “Fix our schools NOW” and most people left the meeting to protest the Department of Education’s lack of a plan to fix our struggling schools. Click here to watch a video of the protest.
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