A state judge on Tuesday heard the teachers union's argument against the city's plan to phase-out or close 22 failing schools beginning this fall.
The union's attorney, Charles Moerdler, argued that the city violated an agreement made last year to help most of those schools. The city, for example, promised to provide extra teachers to Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx but instead sent a teacher licensed in typing and stenography when the school offer neither class, according to Moerdler.
A lawyer for the city argued there was no binding agreement to give the schools more help, and that the city was still within its rights to close the schools because of their "dire condition."
The union is also seeking to block the city from moving or expanding 18 charter schools inside regular public schools on the grounds that they're being given preferential treatment with shared facilities like libraries and lunchrooms.
The city staunchly denies the allegation.
The NAACP is also a plaintiff in the suit but only the teachers union presented arguments during the hearing.
It's not known when the judge, Paul Feinman, will make a decision.
In a separate case, the judge put off a request by some Upper West Side parents to block a charter school from moving into the Brandeis high school campus until a hearing can be held on June 30.
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