ANTI-COMMUNIST WITCH HUNT BY NYC BOARD OF EDUCATION AT PARK SLOPE (BROOKLYN) HIGH SCHOOL

In a throwback to the height of the red-scare witchhunts of the 1950s, the NYC Board of Education has dusted off Sen. Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist playbook and is charging the principal, assistant principal, several teachers, and a teaching assistant at the Park Slope Collegiate public high school in Brooklyn, with “communist organizing”.

Click HERE to hear Mitchel Cohen’s  report.

High School principal Jill Bloomberg, interviewed by Mitchel Cohen for WBAI / Pacifica radio

High School principal Jill Bloomberg, interviewed by Mitchel Cohen for WBAI / Pacifica radio. 
                                                                                              Photo by Cathryn Swan.

On Tuesday June 27, 2017, a large group of parents, students, professionals and community supporters rallied in support of their principal, Jill Bloomberg, and the others who are being interrogated by Mayor de Blasio‘s Board of Education, in front of what used to be called John Jay High School, a beautiful WPA-era building facing Park Slope’s 7th Avenue, which now is home to four high schools in the same building.

WBAI radio’s Mitchel Cohen interviewed those under the new inquisition at the picket line in front of the Park Slope high school and filed this report, which aired on WBAI’s Morning Show a week later (thanks to the knowledgeable work of Michael G. Haskins and Pam Brown).

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