Test scores: Staten Island PS 14 to close. Why?

December 09, 2011

PS 14 will likely graduate its last class of students in 2015

The Stapleton school will die a slow death between now and then, and a new elementary school will open in the building that September, if the Panel for Educational Policy approves a Department of Education proposal.

The panel, dominated by appointees of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has rarely bucked the recommendations of the department, headed by his appointee, Chancellor Dennis Walcott.

“These are never easy decisions, but when a school has failed to serve its students well year after year — even after receiving additional supports — we have a responsibility to provide students with better options,” Walcott said in a statement. “We are already hard at work creating the great new schools that these communities deserve.”

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