Teachers union to load buses with parents opposed to Brooklyn charter school, take them to Queens meeting

New York

December 13, 2011

Approval hearing for Success Academy Cobble Hill school slated for Wednesday

By Rachel Monahan

(New York Daily News, December 13 2011)

The teachers union is literally driving the opposition to a new Brooklyn charter, union officials acknowledged Tuesday.

Four union-chartered buses are expected to deliver parents opposed to the Success Academy Cobble Hill — along with Occupy Wall Street-affiliated protesters — to a contentious meeting in Queens on Wednesday.

The Education Department’s Panel for Educational Policy, controlled by the mayor, is likely to approve the proposed location for former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz’s newest charter school despite the union-supported protests.

Union officials defended their friendly offer of transportation.

“The DOE moved the PEP meeting to a site that’s inconvenient for many parents to get to,” said United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.