New York City’s Department of Education can proceed with a plan to close 22 public schools for poor performance and have 15 traditional schools share their buildings with charter schools, a state judge in Manhattan ruled Thursday, rebuffing a request by the city’s teachers’ union for an injunction blocking the changes.
In Mulgrew v. Board of Education, 105855/11, Supreme Court Justice Paul G. Feinman (See Profile) said that the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP, which is also a plaintiff, were not entitled to a preliminary injunction because they had not shown that they were likely to prevail on the merits.
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