Monday Links
Unearthing Remnants of Former Residents in NYC Homes [NY Times] P.S. 9’s Uphill Fight Over Sharing Space With a Charter [NY Times] Lander: City Needs to Step Up Foreclosure Programs [Gotham Gazette] Small Wonders, Awaiting the Eyes of the Curious [City Room] P.S. 8 Parents Campaign to Add Middle School [NY Post] Dumbo Residents Ask…
Unearthing Remnants of Former Residents in NYC Homes [NY Times]
P.S. 9’s Uphill Fight Over Sharing Space With a Charter [NY Times]
Lander: City Needs to Step Up Foreclosure Programs [Gotham Gazette]
Small Wonders, Awaiting the Eyes of the Curious [City Room]
P.S. 8 Parents Campaign to Add Middle School [NY Post]
Dumbo Residents Ask for Ban on Film Shoots [BK Paper]
Nets Future Home Starts Taking Shape [WNYC]
Co-op & Condos Consider Smoking Bans [NY1]
Don’t Zone Out on This Book [WSJ]
The “Oriental Pavilion” in that picture of Prospect Park stood in for Paris in “Julie and Julia” in a wedding reception scene!
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Way to miss the point of the PS9 article. The City is so blinded by its rosy Charter School spectacles that it denied a successful local school permission to expand. Why is a drop-in, start-up charter better than a good local school?
And why is this charter school chain considered good at all? According to the NY Times article, last year one of the schools in the chain suspended a full 46% of its students. SAY WHAT? That is a huge number. (By comparison, PS 9 suspended a whole 1% of its students last year.) Also, their enrollment fell by 1/3 “due to attrition.” I bet a lot of those suspended kids attrited over to another school. Maybe their neighborhood, non-charter school.
My children’s wildly successful school also wants to expand. It has been denied persmission multiple times. Over the same years, several charters have opened, and a few have closed because they sucked so bad. How does this serve the children of NYC?
Either pay up for private (30K, not tax-deductible) or move to a suburb with great schools (12K-20K property taxes, tax-deductible). The rich can afford to stay, the poor can’t afford to move. Those in between..
^^ as of last year, ps 9 was 11% white, 67% black, 11% hispanic, and 6% asian.
not so, although i do believe that the lower grades (pre-k thru 2) are much more integrated than the upper grades.
from the NYT article “In a city where so many public schools are segregated by race and wealth, Public School 9 in Brooklyn is an exception.” I thought PS 9 was segregated with the gifted and talented class being the only place with white kids and the rest of the school black (like PS 11 used to be.)