New schools: Co-locations and re-locations

Earlier this month we reported that 19 schools originally slated for closure would remain open next fall and we wondered where the new schools scheduled to open in those buildings would be housed.

Now we have some answers. As reported today, nine of the 16 schools will squeeze into the school buildings they had been promised, even though the host schools will not be phased out -- at least not this year.

Other new schools will move into different temporary locations; a few will stay where they are, and at least one has postponed its opening until 2011. A total of 58 new schools will be opened next fall -- including charter schools.

The 19 "failing" schools that the chancellorstill vows to close next year will receive extra support for curriculum, staffing, and social services, in an agreement reached between the Department of Education and the teacher's union (UFT). (One of the new schools will be housed at the UFT headquarters.)

Here's a rundown (and don't think we expect you to keep track of all of these!)

Nine schools will move into school buildings as originally planned:

• Bronx Bridges will move into the Adlai Stevenson building (Stevenson is closed but houses many small schools)
• Democracy Prep Charter School II will move into PS 92
• Dr. Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School will move into the  IS 158 building sharing with New Day Academy, Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School and Bronx Latin
• High School for Community Leadership will open in Jamaica High School
• Hillside Arts and Letters Academy will open in Jamaica High School
• Harlem Success Academy II Charter School will move to thePS 30 building, also occupied by Kappa II
• Murray Hill Academy will move into Norman Thomas High School
• Renaissance Innovation Charter High School will move into the IS 99 building occupied byManhattan East and the Academy of Environmental Science
• Rockaway HS for Environmental Sustainability will move into Beach Channel

Five new schools will move to different locations than originally planned, some as yet unspecified:

• Academy for Health Careers will be moving into District 13 offices
• Brooklyn High School for Young Men will open in upper Manhattan, not at the Metropolitan Corporate Academy in  Brooklyn.
• Brooklyn East Collegiate Charter School will open in a new DOE building
• Cambria Heights Academy will not move into the Campus Magnet complex but into leased space in District 29.
• Manhattan Academy for Arts & Languagewill move into UFT headquarters in downtown Manhattan

PS 747 in Brooklyn,  set to open in PS 332 in Bushwick, has postponed its opening until 2011. Kappa International will stay in its current home at Roosevelt High School next year.

Whew! We'll keep you updated as more information is available.

Anybody got a child entering one of the new schools...or one of the 19 schools given a reprieve? Please comment below.