school overcrowding

East Village Community School wants to be considered for available school space due to overcrowding and renovations.

Girls Prep Charter School wants to increase its elementary grades at the building it shares with two schools.

The East Village Community School says the discovery of oil in the ground beneath them is grounds for relocation.

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

The Blue Man Group theater troupe founded the private elementary school to give children a more creative education.

The popular school has received 163 applications for 125 seats.

P.S. 151 will be getting a new home in the fall. Parents are celebrating, but it took years of dedication to make it happen.

Schools Chancellor Cathie Black called Community Board 1 Chairwoman Julie Menin to apologize for her flip remarks.

Cathie Black, the new schools chancellor, listened to downtown parents' concerns at a meeting Thursday.

Parents expect another surge in lower Manhattan kindergarten applications for fall 2011.

The Campaign for Fiscal Equity released a report Tuesday showing that 50,000 new classroom seats are unaccounted for.

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

Chancellor Joel Klein answered questions at an hour-long forum at P.S. 33 Wednesday night.

Spruce's sixth grade will not open until 2015, the Department of Education said this week.

The city hopes to build a new 400-seat K-5 school where the Peck Slip Post Office now stands.