NY: Closure of Big Failing Schools in NYC is Working – Or is it?

Education News: Bronx’s Stevenson High School and its 3,000 students were in New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg’s eyes what was wrong with public education in NYC. The building that housed the students was constantly under threat from gang violence, had low graduation rates, a high dropout rate and was generally one of the worst-performing campuses in the city. Changing the way schools like Stevenson operated was the cornerstone of Bloomberg’s reform strategy.

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