UFT President Michael Mulgrew visited the staff of Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn on Feb. 2. Mulgrew went over the problem of accountability — required for teachers but absent from Tweed — that allows the DOE to target a high-performing high school such as Maxwell for closure. He covered the union’s efforts to get ATRs back in permanent positions, the union’s political-action work, including the solid support the union receives from elected officials and the community, and why that work needs to be continued and broadened. In discussion, Barton staff talked about internal problems, including a large special-needs population of wheelchair-bound students who rely on a near-century-old elevator that is in disrepair, and a feeling that Tweed doesn’t want Barton to succeed.