Posted by The city’s Panel for Education policy voted to shut down 19 chronically underperforming schools.
The hearing, which began Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, stretched into the morning before a single vote was held. The panel voted 9-4 to close the schools at 3 a.m. after a raucous nine-hour meeting.
The hearing was met with protests from families, teachers and United Federation of Teachers President, Michael Mulgrew.
There were initially 20 schools on the list, but the Alfred E. Smith School in the Bronx was pulled off t the last minute. Its fate will be decided at a separate meeting next month.
The move will affect over 10,000 students; the first schools will close this June and the rest will be shuttered over several years.
Department of Education officials cited years of low-graduation rates and poor performance among the schools in their decisions to close them.
The Panel for Educational Policy, whose members are picked by the mayor and the five borough presidents, are required to allow the public to be present for its voting procedure and also allows the public the chance to be heard. Each person is allowed up to two minutes to speak.
The meeting was initially to be held on Staten Island, but was moved to Brooklyn Tech to accommodate the large number of people attending.
List of schools closed by Department of Education:
- Academy of Collaborative Education (Manhattan)
- Academy of Environmental Science (Manhattan)
- Beach Channel High School (Queens)
- Business, Computer Applications, and Entrepreneurship High School (Queens)
- Choir Academy of Harlem (Manhattan)
- Columbus High School (Bronx)
- Frederick Douglas Academy III (Bronx)
- Global Enterprise High School (Bronx)
- Jamaica High School (Queens)
- Kappa II (Manhattan)
- Metropolitan Corporate Academy (Brooklyn)
- Middle School for Academic and Social Excellence (Brooklyn)
- Monroe Academy for Business Law (Bronx)
- New Day Academy (Bronx)
- Norman Thomas High School (Manhattan)
- Paul Robeson High School (Brooklyn)
- School for Community Research and Learning (Bronx)
- W.H. Maxell CTE School (Brooklyn)
- PS 332 (Brooklyn)
Source: AP
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