New York City to shut 6 schools for poor performance

In the first fallout from the Bloomberg administration’s controversial new school report cards, the city named six schools yesterday that will be shut down after earning D’s and F’s. Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said yesterday (December 4, 2007) that he planned to close 14 to 20 schools at the end of this school year. But that number would fall far short of the more than 50 schools that earned F’s, and of the approximately 100 that received D’s on the report cards. Officials said the report cards were only one factor in deciding what schools to close, saying they examined schools’ history of performance when making the decisions. Read the article in The New York Times.