A New York state judge has blocked New York City from closing nineteen public schools. In her ruling, the judge said the Panel for Education Policy committed “significant violations of Education Law” and “appeared to trivialize the whole notion of community involvement in decisions regarding the closing or phasing out of schools.” Under Mayor Mike Bloomberg, ninety-one schools in the city have been closed and replaced with clusters of smaller schools and charter schools. The lawsuit to block the school closings was filed by the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP.