Good to see that Bloomberg and Walcott aren't backing down:

The New York City Education Department has set in motion its plan to restore federal grants to 33 struggling schools. On Tuesday, it released proposals to close eight of those schools, replace half of their staff, then reopen them under new names, all in a bid to bypass a required teacher evaluation system, which should have been in place by Dec. 31.

…The strategy beneath it all, though, is to push out teachers whose performances are deemed unsatisfactory — a decision that does not depend on approval from the teachers' union.

The plan has been a bone of contention between Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the teachers' union president, Michael Mulgrew, pretty much since it was announced last month. (Ernest A. Logan, president of the principals' union, also registered his protest.)

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