As part of mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to overhaul the education system, 91 Schools have been closed due to low grades in the city wide school progress reports. Most of them were due to overall underachievement, others were closed due to low graduation rates, despite otherwise acceptable performance.

Our Senior Benjamin Brinson says ” It really makes no sense to close them.” While John White the deputy schools chancellor for strategy says that “This Proposal is a reflection of our belief that in some schools there is simply not the capaccity to fulfill our promise to kids to prepare them for the future.”

A new law requires a 45 day period of public hearings before closing a school. Some say this measure only ads contention to the already emotional procedure.

For more information:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/nyregion/03closings.html