Comments on: D3 Overcrowding: Buck passes to DOE

By: Parent

Parent — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:02:42 +0000

Did the BOE issue a statement yet? What was their final decision?

By: mom

mom — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:19:09 +0000

hi, i need help my child has this test bok and i want to go over it but i don,t know the aswers can u help me .

By: Uncle Matt

Uncle Matt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:24:39 +0000

Isn’t it true, though, that the Community Education Council has no real power or authority in moving schools, and that by now recommending schools move they’ve overstepped their limited role in this discussion? Isn’t it also true that Jennifer Freeman is The Center School’s representative on the Community Education Council and she has never once advocated on the school’s behalf? Interesting.

By: NA

NA — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:54:44 +0000

I applaud Jennifer’s hard work and the CEC’s recent resolution. The issues are very difficult but I believe they did the best they could given the circumstances. They recognized that there would be tremendous hardship placed on a community if neighborhood children could not attend their local school. I think there decision is also best for the Center School because it gives the school a great new home with room to maintain and grow their current program.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:09:31 +0000

As a parent at both PS 199 and The Center School, I am appalled by the unabashed sense of entitlement displayed by the PS 199 Political Action Committee and their legion of followers. Never in their quest for additional space did PS 199 consider the needs of The Center School, an established, high-performing middle school educating in a shared building for the last 27 years. PS 199 wanted cluster rooms, they wanted 22 children in a classroom, they wanted free reign to privatize their public school; and the District 3 Community Education Council and the Department of Education gave it to them. Whether it was, in fact, the loud, lobbying voices of PS 199’s affluent parents, or the influential developers building up their catchment zone, somebody was heard by the CEC/DOE, and it wasn’t The Center School. Money trumped diversity. Money trumped equity. Money trumped reason. The Department of Education came up with a short-term solution for a single school in a crowded district. And that’s a sad lesson for the 200+ students now being evicted from their middle school home.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:15:40 +0000

I’d like to see more information about the role of CEC in districts. Is there a link that explains how people are elected, what their roles are within the CEC, and is there someone or a group that oversees the CEC? I find the structure confusing. I’m pretty new to the role of a parent with a school-aged child, and there are certainly tons of acronyms to get used to, but this seems like an important group with seemingly power that could affect a lot of children. I see CEC leaders’ names splashed over the newspapers saying they represent this or that district parents, and yet I wonder how many parents even know about the group.