After thousands of students, parents and teachers protested Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to close 24 schools across the city, including seven in Queens, the city Panel for Educational Policy voted 8-4 Thursday night to shutter the institutions.
Seven of the mayor’s appointees, and the Staten Island borough president’s representative, voted to approve the plan to close the schools at the end of June and reopen them in September with up to half the teachers replaced, new names and potentially other principals. The borough presidents’ representatives from Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx voted against the closures.
“We tend to forget that the public school system belongs to the public and that the public should play an integral role in any significant change that may take place within
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