The Department of Education gave last minute reprieves to two politically-backed schools this morning – just hours before its policy panel is set to approve the closure of two dozen other schools.
Queens’ Grover Cleveland HS – where state Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan is an alum – and Bushwick Community HS in Brooklyn – a transfer school that garnered a number of vocal supporters, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn – will no longer close at the end of the school year, officials announced.
The schools “have demonstrated an ability to continue their improvements without the more comprehensive actions that are clearly needed at 24 other schools,” chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a statement.
The schools had all been told since January
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