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January 10, 2012
To protest school closure, students fill officials’ voicemail boxes
April Pichardo, Justin Watson, and Harry Rivas (center), students from Manhattan's Legacy School for Integrated Studies, organized a phone bank to lobby officials to keep the school open.
Students at the Legacy School for Integrated Studies took to the phones this afternoon in the latest phase of a desperate effort to save their school.
About two dozen students, parents and administrators spread out across the cafeteria of the Union Square high school to barrage officials with phone calls protesting the city’s plan to close the school.
A list of of 75 targets ranged from Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch to midlevel officials at the city Department of Education. Some people received as many as 20 calls, according to students who organized the event, which they called “Occupy Their Ears.”
The Panel for Educational Policy, which has never rejected a city proposal, is set to vote on closure plans for Legacy and 18 other schools next month. Until then, Legacy students and Coalition for Educational Justice activists say they will lobby the city to give the low-performing school more time to improve.
Some students said they also plan to go to Rockefeller Center early each morning next week with the hope that their “Save Legacy” signs will be featured on air during “The Today Show.” (more…)
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