{"id":307691,"date":"2017-05-11T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-city-officials-red-bait-public-school-faculty\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:19:41","slug":"new-york-city-officials-red-bait-public-school-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-city-officials-red-bait-public-school-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City officials red-bait public school faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>New York City officials red-bait public school faculty<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Daniel de Vries<br \/>\n    <br \/>11 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In a chilling resurgence of the tactics used decades ago to purge the New York City public school system of faculty deemed insufficiently pro-American, a school principal and two teachers at a Brooklyn high school are under investigation for alleged \u201ccommunist activity.\u201d The principal of Park Slope Collegiate (PSC), Jill Bloomberg, along with two teachers from the high school are targets of the probe. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation comes in the context of outspoken opposition by faculty, students and parents at PSC to the unequal education afforded to the largely working class, minority student body enrolled at the school. While PSC is situated in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Brooklyn\u2014Park Slope\u2014its students are overwhelmingly drawn from poorer areas of the borough. <\/p>\n<p>Opposition at PSC to school inequality flared following the 2011 decision by billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg\u2019s administration to \u201cco-locate\u201d an additional, highly selective school\u2014Millennium Brooklyn\u2014on the Park Slope campus rather than dedicate resources to improving the existing three schools already on site. The Bloomberg administration carried out this move over the heated objections and protests by many in the PSC community.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions recently spiked again over current mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s school security procedures, in which working class youth are treated more like criminals than students. Protestors demanded the removal of video cameras and metal detectors, and an end to the brutal treatment of students by police and school security guards. There have been several recent incidents involving NYPD and school security, including one in 2015 where a school security officer handcuffed a student who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/05\/11\/vict-m11.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New York City officials red-bait public school faculty By Daniel de Vries 11 May 2017 In a chilling resurgence of the tactics used decades ago to purge the New York City public school system of faculty deemed insufficiently pro-American, a school principal and two teachers at a Brooklyn high school are under investigation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}