school overcrowding

Lower Manhattan saw 1,086 births in 2010.

After reviewing its initial rejection of a plan to ease overcrowding at P.S. 116, the DOE has said no.

At a community board meeting on Wednesday night, parents and teachers from P.S. 116 came out in force, asking for the board's help in their fight against overcrowding.

Members of Community Board 5 are urging the city to reverse a decision to shrink a soon-to-be-built schoool near Union Square.

The city has nearly 1,000 more overcrowded classrooms this year than last year, the United Federation of Teachers said.

The post office will lease the former Andrews Coffee Shop space at 116 John St.

The city found space for the waitlisted TriBeCa children without having to relocate them to a school in Chinatown.

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

The city is not changing its plan to send waitlisted P.S. 234 families to P.S. 130 in Chinatown.

The state Education Department skipped a hearing on the New York Flex Charter School.

New York Flex Charter School is looking into four potential locations south of Houston Street, infuriating parents.

At least 25 P.S. 234 families were told that they will go to P.S. 130 instead.

Parents at P.S. 151 are irate that the DOE offered kindergarten spots to 18 kids from another school's zone.

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

The rezoning would send downtown kids to Chinatown and the Village.