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Recent Headlines

Great Kills & Tottenville

March 04, 2013

Competition for Staten Island Pre-K Seats is Fierce at Top Schools

Applications to top schools greatly outnumber the amount of pre-K seats.

Tottenville

February 19, 2013

Parents of Disabled Kids Press for Elevators and Ramps at SI School

Parents say they need elevators installed at I.S. 34 so their children can attend.

Sunset Park

February 11, 2013

Red Hook, Sunset Park Schools Adapt to Shifting Demographics

An influx of immigrants has schools bursting at the seams, parents say.

TriBeCa

June 11, 2012

City Will Fix Downtown School 'Crunch' by Sending Kids to Chinatown

Dozens of Downtown kids could be given spaces at P.S. 1 in Chinatown as soon as the fall of 2013.

Battery Park City

May 17, 2012

Waitlisted Battery Park City Kindergarteners Will Go to Chinatown, DOE Says

Battery Park City parents were upset their children might have to attend school outside the neighborhood.

Downtown

April 23, 2012

Parents Slam City Solutions for Downtown Kindergarten Waitlists

Parents said the city needs to build another new school in Lower Manhattan.

Downtown

November 17, 2011

Parents Veto School Rezoning Plan That Would Send TriBeCa Kids to Chinatown

The District 2 Community Education Council asked the Department of Education to go back to the drawing board at a meeting on Nov. 16, 2011.

Downtown

November 09, 2011

City Releases Revised School Rezoning Plan for District 2

The DOE's new plan sends some children zoned for P.S. 234 in TriBeCa to P.S. 1 in Chinatown instead.

Downtown

November 03, 2011

DOE to Unveil New Downtown School Rezoning Proposal

The DOE will offer a new plan for rezoning Downtown's schools, after parents objected to an earlier proposal.

Downtown

September 28, 2011

Extra Room in Chinatown Schools Could Ease Downtown Overcrowding, City Says

There are 350 to 370 seats available in P.S. 1 and P.S. 126, a Department of Education official said.

Downtown

June 24, 2011

Plan to Bus Kids Out of Downtown Will Halt Area's Recovery, Parents Warn

Parents fighting a city plan to send students to Chinatown claim it will hurt the area's development.