The de Blasio administration announced it will reverse some school co-location decisions made at the end of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s term.
Some of those involved plans to locate charter schools in traditional school buildings.
The Department of Education says it reviewed 45 proposals that Bloomberg approved for the 2014 school year.
It will reverse the decision on 9 of those proposals.
The DOE says it considered resources, construction and the mixing of elementary and high schools.
The mayor says Bloomberg rushed to approve co-locations that were not in the best interest of students.
“I’m not gonna mince words about what I feel about how the Bloomberg administration made decisions on co-locations. I think it was abhorrent. I think it was done without real consultation with parents, real consultation with the schools that were gonna be affected, the receiving schools. And I think a lot of those co-locations proved to be very problematic in practice,” said de Blasio.
Three of the schools which won’t be allowed to open as co-locations are part of the Success Academy, charter schools founded by former Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.
She says she plans to cancel classes for a day next week so her students can attend a rally in Albany trying to gain support for charter schools.
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