Newsroom
NYC parents fight against Bloomberg's school cuts
By CYRIL JOSH BARKER
source: New York Amsterdam News
Thursday January 12, 2012
As the saga continues over public school closures across the city, parents and students at one school in Brooklyn, like several others in the borough, aren't giving in to closure without a fight.
M.S. 587 Middle School for the Arts in Crown Heights is slated for closure. In response, parents held a rally last week to get the school removed from the Department of Education's (DOE) list. A crowd of parents gathered at the school last Thursday and said the school is too needed in the community to be taken away.
Situated in District 17, M.S. 587 not only serves many students but also serves children with special needs. The school had Collaborative Team Teaching (CTT) teachers. CTT classes consist of one general education teacher and one special education teacher, providing a reduced student-teacher ratio. M.S. 587 also has three resource classrooms.
"Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg's administrative tactics are not working for our children or our community, and we don't want to see this school closed because of political posturing," said Charlene Williams, the former PTA president of M.S. 587 who organized last week's rally.
