“These aren’t marginally bad schools or non-performing schools,” Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday regarding the list of schools the Department of Education wants to shut down or truncate this year. ” They just don’t do the job, this is no question they’re not doing the job. ” In a two-part process the city released a list of 19 schools that are facing execution at the end of the school year— including one Manhattan school with a violent rep that included an assault on a pregnant woman —as well as six schools that may have their middle school grades removed. “This is about student performance, student outcome, making sure we improve our schools and making sure students are college ready and career ready,” schools chancellor Dennis Walcott assured parents today. [ more › ]

Read the original: 
City Announces 19 Schools On The Chopping Block