New York City to Close 14 Schools; 9 Are Renewals

 

By Eliza Shapiro

Mayor Bill de Blasio will close 14 New York City schools at the end of this academic year, nine of which are in the Renewal program for struggling schools, the Department of Education announced Monday.

In total, 15 Renewal schools will be closed, shrunk or merged, and five schools outside the Renewal program will be closed, including the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, where a student was stabbed to death by his classmate earlier this year.

The spate of closures — by the far the largest number of de Blasio’s tenure so far — puts the Renewal program’s struggles on stark display. The program, announced in November 2014, has cost the city more than half a billion dollars thus far.

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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)