STEGLICH v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF CITY SCHOOL DIST. OF CITY OF NEW YORK

104300/11

2011 NY Slip Op 51159(U)

LISA STEGLICH, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF ALEXANDER HERLIHY, INFANT, RIC CHERWIN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF MARLEY CHERWIN, INFANT, CAROL BARKER, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF OMAR BROWN, INFANT, GINA DEMETRIUS, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF SEBASTIAN DEMETRIUS, KIMBERLY JARNOT, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF MARGARET THOMAS, INFANT, NYDIA JORDAN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF HARRY D. JORDAN, INFANT, KAVERY KAUL, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF ASHOK KAUL, INFANT, RUBEN AND GERALDINE LOPEZ, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENTS AND NATURAL GUARDIANS OF SHANE LOPEZ, INFANT, MADELINE OLMEDA, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF CRISTINA JULIA CRUZ, INFANT, LAZARA QUINONES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF DORIS ALCANTARA, INFANT, AND MARILYNN SARJEANT, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF ALIYA CLUNIE, INFANT, Petitioners, v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, A/K/A THE PANEL FOR EDUCATIONAL POLICY, THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND DENNIS M. WALCOTT, AS CHANCELLOR-DESIGNATE OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Respondents. AND UPPER WEST SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL A/K/A SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, MATTHEW MOREY, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANTS THOMAS MOREY AND CLAIRE MOREY, MARTIN AARES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT SABINE BALOU-AARES, GABRIEL BAEZ, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT CHRISTOPHER BAEZ, LISBETH DELOSSANTOS, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT MIYAH MUZO, ELANA KILKENNY, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT LIAM KILKENNY, ELISSA KLEIN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT AVA KLEIN, REBECCA KUHAR, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT ROBERT MAXWELL KUHAR, LATISHA SINGLETARY, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT RANIYA GARRETT-WELLS, MICHAEL SUCHANEK, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANTS SALLY SUCHANEK AND AMELIA SUCHANEK, AND DAVID TURNOFF, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PARENT AND NATURAL GUARDIAN OF INFANT HUNTER KIM-TURNOFF, Proposed Intervenor-Respondents.

Supreme Court, New York County.

Decided May 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips Nizer LLP by MEAGAN A ZAPOTOCKY , JON S BROOKS and MARC A LANDIS , 666 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10103, 212-977-9700, for Petitioners.

New York City Law Department (Office of the Corporation Counsel) by Emily Sweet , New York City Law Department, 100 Church Street, Room 2-110, New York, NY 10007, (212) 788-1171, for Respondents.

ARNOLD & PORTER by ANTHONY D. BOCCANFUSO , 399 PARK AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10022, (212) 715-1315, for Intervenor SACS.

Mary Ellen Clerkin , Assistant Counsel, New York State Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue — Room 148EB, Albany, NY 12234 Tel: (518) 473-6816, for Amici NYSDOE and the Commissioner.


MEMORANDUM DECISION1

CAROL R. EDMEAD, J.

Petitioners, who are children and the parents of children who attend three of the five existing high schools located in the Brandeis Education Campus ("Brandeis Campus") in Community School District 3, commenced this Article 78 proceeding against respondents, the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York (a/k/a the Panel for Educational Policy) ("PEP...

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