“In addition, the PS191 Principal and SLT presented the CEC with a statement of preference that includes a two-school grade pairing schematic with PS342.
Our task as a working group (tomorrow), therefore, is to provide council with additional recommendations centered around the following three areas:
1. to consider a more conservative allocation to PS452 based on conflicting data points
2. to evaluate the workability for the PS191 proposal
3. to discuss other considerations that may impact the DOE presentation and additional public commentPlease see the attached agenda for tomorrow’s meeting. We will start as a single group but then have two subcommittees working in break out sessions. Our goal is to provide specific recommendations to the CEC3 for next Tuesday’s (11/10) business meeting.”
The list of upcoming meetings is below:
Zoning Committee
November 6, 2015
9am
Joan of Arc Complex, room 204
154 W 93rd Street
Diversity Committee Meeting
November 9, 2015
6pm
Joan of Arc Complex, room 204
154 W 93rd St.
CEC 3 Business Meeting, agenda to follow
November 10th, 2015
6:30 pm
Joan of Arc Complex, auditorium
154 W 93rd St.
Zoning Committee
November 16th
6:30 pm
Joan of Arc Complex, room 204
154 W 93rd St.
CEC 3 Calendar Meeting
November 19th
6:30 pm
PS 87
160 W 78th Street, auditorium
CEC3 Special Calendar Meeting
December 2nd
6pm
Joan of Arc Complex, room 204
154 W 93rd St.
CEC 3 Business & Calendar meeting
December 9th
6:30 pm
Joan of Arc Complex, room 204
154 W 93rd St.
“She noted that the board (CEC3) has rejected the Dept. of Education’s rezoning plan and agreed to guarantee sibling grandfathering for current students in any proposal. Other than that, it’s very unclear what the board could do.”
…other than redline PS 191 you mean?
The 191 PTA proposal is only going to be successful if they make the new school the prek-2. The new school is the only hope the zone has in attracting families. You are trying to get kindergarten students to enter, not third graders!!!
Anything happen at the zoning committee meeting today?
They decided to “recommend” a 5 kindergarten cap for 199. This seems like the predictable overreaction the other way from 7 classes 2 years ago. I don’t think anyone knows what will happen for that class next year — will it condense to 4 1st grade classes oversized beyond 30 or will it be 5 1st grade classes to be filled with the same zoned out kids later?
Very confusing what the plan is for next year. The DOE’s rezoning plan was bad for many reasons, but the CEC mainly rejected it on the reasonable grounds that you should not force more families to 191 while doubt (and legal rights) remains over the dangerous designation. Unless the CEC is backtracking from that sound policy, then I have no idea where the 50+ kids from 199 who won’t get seats there but still want public school seats are supposed to go.
Are “the 50+ kids from 199 who won’t get seats there but still want public school seats” parents on the CEC?
You know, I really dont get it!! There are so many great schools on the Upper West Side, including my alma mater, including Trinity, Calhoun, Columbia Grammer & Prep., Collegiate….do I need to go on?
What are all you people bickering about?!?
There are also other public schools, but these families prefer packing their children like sardines into a few schools while hoping that the overcrowding will magically resolve itself.
Are you serious? You must live in a bubble if you think every family can afford private school or are even interested in sending their children to one. Many people support public school for numerous reasons. That is why this struggle matters.
UWS_lifer, the schools you mention cost $40k a year. People are bickering about free public schools. The disparity between two both funded by our tax dollars is astounding.
If they changed the cut off to match private schools that would be 3 or 4 mths of kids that would have to wait until the following year to enroll. Obviously that followings yr it would be a full year of kids but the first yr they do it it would be a class consisting of kids born in 8 or 9 mths of the yr instead of 12 mths. It would buy them a year of time to complete the new school