Public Advocate Tish James files lawsuit to halt school co-locations
Public school students and parents are going to court in their battle against co-locations.
Earlier this month, Community Education Council (CEC) members, PTA presidents and parents came together in Brooklyn Heights for a town hall to discuss a lawsuit filed by Advocates for Justice with the goal of terminating the Department of Education’s (DOE) plans of going through with some 30 school co-locations.
The co-locations were approved by the Bloomberg administration late in the then-mayor’s final term, but after reviewing all of them, Mayor Bill de Blasio recently gave 36 of the 45 co-locations the green light. Dissatisfied with this decision, Public Advocate Letitia “Tish” James has filed a lawsuit against the current mayor in order to block additional charter school co-locations.