The Department of Education has tried twice since last year to shut MS 344, the city's worst-performing middle school. MS 344 has made the state's list of "persistently dangerous" schools, and just two of 88 eighth-graders last year passed the state math or reading exams.
But the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP went to court to block the closure and 21 others, arguing the DOE did nothing to fix the ailing schools. A Manhattan judge heard arguments last week and is expected to rule soon.
That would be the most oppposite example you'd find in the United States. Scott Walker seems to have determined to take the war to the idiots in as major a way as possible and the kids there will benefit.
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boomerang
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Mon 27 Jun, 2011 06:36 am
@gungasnake,
Like I always say -- if you want to teach kids the value of education give them a school covered with mouse ****.
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