CROWDING CONTROVERSY

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Opinion and Column

To the Editor: I attended the somewhat raucous Community Education Council meeting regarding the issue of overcrowding in District 3. What strikes me about this issue is the following: first, that parents from 199 seem to have an almost hysterical need to have their school close to their home. I don’t get it. We took
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SCHOOL MOVE OK’D

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

District 3’s Community Education Council voted in favor of a fiercely contended rezoning and relocation proposal to alleviate overcrowding at a local elementary school. The proposal, which unanimously passed with one abstention at a Nov. 12 meeting, incorporates suggestions from the Department of Education and the parent council. The plan would move a small middle
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CEC BACKS SCHOOL MOVE

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

District 3’s Community Education Council has drafted a recommendation endorsing a controversial plan to remove the Center School, a small middle school, from the West 70th Street building it currently shares with P.S. 199. The move is intended to alleviate crowding in P.S. 199. The tentative plan, as described in the drafted resolution endorsed by
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GROWING RIFT OVER P.S. 199 CROWDING PROPOSALS

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in Education, News & Features West Side Spirit

The Department of Education’s preliminary proposals for tackling overcrowding in District 3 have led to escalating tension between parents at P.S. 199 and The Center School, whose children share a building on West 70th Street. Various factions from the two schools sharply disagree on whether The Center School should be moved to alleviate the space
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