Failed strategies for “failing schools”: Testimony before the NYS Assembly Education Committee on the NYC’s Plan for Persistently Low Achieving Schools

Here and below is our testimony before the New York State Assembly on the city’s plan to close and “turnaround” struggling schools, given April 11, 2012.

Summary: these strategies will not work, do not address the critical issues, including class size, and will further destabilize and undermine the education of our neediest students.