The Bloomberg administration continues its path of closing schools rather than helping them.
Read more here on the New York City parent blog.
Only 13 years ago, DeWitt Clinton High School was rated one of the best in the nation. It was once an honored school, home to great teachers and students.
But now, going into the 11th year of mayoral control, it is overcrowded and on the chopping block.
The Bloomberg administration’s Department of Education demonstrates yet again that it has no idea how to improve schools. It just demolishes them.
In time, the small schools that replace DeWitt Clinton will also close.
And then?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I find all these school closings heartbreaking. They can’t admit they don’t know how to fix the problems in the schools, so they blame the schools and then close them, disrupting the lives of children.