Before and after school tomorrow, parents and education advocates will rally outside PS 125 in Harlem to protest the Department of Education's exclusion of the community (and the Community Education Council) from local zoning decisions, which CECs are legally bound to review and approve. PS 125 currently enrolls student in grades 3 through 6, receiving students from PS 36, which covers pre-K through grade 2. The DOE has decided that PS 36 will expand to include older students, curtailing the stream of students that has long fed PS 125, and that PS 125 will lose its sixth grade.
That block of West 125th street is one of the most school-dense zones in town: PS 125 shares its building with the Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering, which will eventually span grades 6 through 12 -- and its next door neighbor is the well-regarded KIPP Star College Prep Charter School.
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