| At a Jan. 25 City Council hearing on the devastating impact of school closures on the city's neediest students, UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Leo Casey charged that the city's Department of Education has devolved into "an accountability mechanism that does very little to support schools." With the Panel for Educational Policy meetings to decide the fate of schools targeted for closure a week away, Casey said that affected school communities "quite frankly deserve a lot more than the raw deal doled out by the DOE, which stacked the deck against them and then turned their backs as they struggled." In response to questions from Council members, Casey described how closing schools result when many "over-the-counter" struggling students are added to the register of neighboring schools, which are then set up to fail." READ ON AND SEE HOW WE ARE LOSING OUR SCHOOLS... |
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