Mayor's Critics Sue to Protest Outside His Home

[tonysam]

A group that opposes charter schools and school closings filed a lawsuit against the city on Tuesday for "unconstitutionally and without any legal basis" denying its request to protest on the sidewalk outside the Upper East Side town house of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

The plaintiffs are two students from William H. Maxwell High School in Brooklyn, which is slated to close for poor performance, and a parent and teacher from Public School 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an elementary school that shares space with the PAVE Academy Charter School. The city has proposed to allow PAVE to remain in the school for five more years, as it grows to include kindergarten through eighth grade, and teachers and parents at P.S. 15 have been furious.

"Our voices haven't been heard, so we thought that the best way for the mayor to hear us would be for us to take our voices to his block," said Julie Cavanagh, a special education teacher at P.S. 15. "There have been rallies at Tweed, and the individual schools, and its been a complete deaf ear." (The former Tweed courthouse is where the Department of Education's main offices are located.)

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We can't have the peasants spoiling the view.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. NCLB is working well

As a teacher, and my voice in the educational field is not a lone one, I believe NCLB was enacted to stop teachers from actually teaching and to decimate the public school system. Yeah, the system needs an overhaul, but the onus put on the schools, districts, counties and states has taken a huge toll on those who matter most, the students.

NCLB: Among one of the worst pieces of legislation enacted during the Bush administration.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Do you remember who was pushed it from the Democratic side of the aisle?

[Me.]

2. How Did I Know This Was About Bloomberg

Even before opening the thread

[mzteris]

6. how did I know this was about

charter bashing even before opening the thread.

:eyes:

[Hannah Bell]

7. how did i know you perceive any discussion of problems with charters as "charter bashing".

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Lotsa luck finding a judge independent of Bloomberg's.....

... power and influence.

[tonysam]

5. They now can protest

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