Coalition for Educational Justice

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01/19/12--13:14: City Says It Will Focus on College Readiness (chan 3143917)

By Anna M. Phillips, NY Times The latest statistic bedeviling Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s efforts to show progress in the city’s public schools during his tenure is a startling, but well-known one: one out of every four students who entered high school in 2007, and graduated four years later, was not ready for college-level work. [...]


01/27/12--09:51: CEJ releases report on failed policy of school closure (chan 3143917)

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01/31/12--09:20: Mayoral candidates unite to target Bloomberg’s school policies (chan 3143917)

By Philissa Cramer, Gotham Schools A press conference about the city’s school closure policy looked a lot like a campaign stop for four men eyeing 2013 mayoral runs. Four leading mayoral candidates — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, and former comptroller and 2009 mayoral runner-up Bill Thompson [...]


01/31/12--09:51: Almost all the 2013 candidates protest Bloomberg’s education policy (chan 3143917)

By Azi Paybarah, Capital NY For a few moments this afternoon, four of the five leading 2013 mayoral candidates were gathered together on the steps of City Hall. They were there to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s practice of shutting down failing schools and, according to critics, opening up smaller charter schools in those facilities which [...]


01/31/12--10:11: Mayoral Hopefuls Protest School Closings (chan 3143917)

By Beth Fertig, NY Times To Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, the city’s policy of closing schools and replacing them with new ones is akin to the movie “Groundhog Day.” “We’re going to be back here next month, we’re going to be back here in six months, the kids will not get any smarter, [...]


01/31/12--13:00: Mayoral hopefuls: School closings flawed (chan 3143917)

By Rachel Monahan, NY Daily News Four of the five top Democratic candidates for mayor took to the steps of City Hall Tuesday to criticize the mayor’s school closing policy. As the city moves to close a record 62 schools this year, the Democrats said Mayor Bloomberg needs to account for what happens to the [...]


01/31/12--14:07: Mayoral Contenders Band Together to Criticize School Closures (chan 3143917)

By Colin Campbell, Politicker Earlier this afternoon, four of the five top-tier mayoral candidates stood on the steps of City Hall to criticize recent school closures. City Comptroller John Liu, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio took to the stand to criticize Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s education [...]


02/01/12--09:22: NYC Mayoral Candidates Criticize School Closings (chan 3143917)




02/01/12--09:27: Public Advocate de Blasio, Comptroller Liu, Borough President Stringer, Former Comptroller Thompson Demand City Tell Truth About “Lost” High-Needs Students (chan 3143917)

Recent report shows closing schools are packed with high-needs students, but City hasn’t released data showing where those kids ended up Elected officials ask: What happened to the kids who didn’t make it into the new schools? Is “warehousing” of high-needs students at other schools dooming them to fail? (New York, NY – January 31, [...]


02/10/12--10:08: City hall press conference to protest school closings (chan 3143917)