New Schools.

Education activists cheered the announcement of the new school but warned that more seats are needed.

The city hopes to open a new elementary school at the Peck Slip Post Office site in the fall of 2015.

Parents at the Spruce Street School say the Education Department admitted too many kindergarten classes for next year.

Restored state funding will allow the city to build nearly 12,000 new school seats, Walcott said.

A new middle school that focuses on individualized learning will move into Tweed Courthouse for just one year.

The school will open in Tweed Courthouse in the fall of 2012, the DOE said.

Construction on a new 400-seat school in lower Manhattan will not begin until 2014, the city said.

The 31,000-square-foot Borders at 100 Broadway is closing as early as March.

The city plans to build a school on the site of the Peck Slip Post Office.

An Upper East Side high school is slated to move to 26 Broadway, but the downtown community objects.

The city hopes to put a 400-seat elementary school on the current location of the Peck Slip Post Office.

Innovate Manhattan Charter School will use the space for three years starting in fall 2011.

Millennium High School may expand to Brooklyn rather than opening a second Financial District location.

Speaker Sheldon Silver said Millennium should be given available school space at 26 Broadway.

The reforms come as the city plans to open a new school for grades nine to 14, and add new technology to schools.