By Mary Ann Giordano, NY Times
If it seems that the protests to prevent the closing of struggling schools are becoming a regular thing — that is because they are, GothamSchools reported on Tuesday.
Julian Vinocur of the Alliance for Quality Education told Gotham that more school protests are planned for this fall, as part of a strategy to prevent any school closings.
As Gotham reports, the Alliance for Quality Education and the Coalition of Educational Justice, two advocacy groups, have been saying for years that “struggling schools would be better served by additional resources,” rather than the city’s policy of closing ones that are deemed too flawed to prop up.
This year, 20 schools were identified for possible closing. The City Department of Education said it was holding discussions with those schools to determine their needs and whether they could be saved.
The Gotham report followed another protest Tuesday at a school on the struggling schools list: Public School 137 John L. Bernstein on the Lower East Side, which received an F on its latest school progress report.
Last week, a similar protest by parents and staff members was held at P.S. 256 Benjamin Banneker in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, another school on the Education Department’s list.
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