The Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) will vote on four proposals to co-locate multiple Queens schools at the end of October.
The PEP — made up of seven mayoral appointees and five representatives from each borough — will meet in Brooklyn on October 30 at 883 Classon Avenue to discuss a series of plans that would squeeze more than one school into a building.
In one proposal, the city’s Department of Education (DOE) wants to temporarily put P.S. 176 Cambria Heights and a new public elementary charter school inside I.S. 59 Springfield Gardens.
The charter school would be part of Success Academy, which operates 18 public city charter schools, and would open next year.
A public hearing before the plan goes to the PEP will be held on October 9 at 6 p.m. at 132-55 Ridgedale Street.
The city also wants to put another new Success Academy Charter School and a new transfer high school inside August Martin High School.
Officials will hear out the public at August Martin on October 3 at 6 p.m.
There are also plans to add another new elementary school inside P.S. 40 Samuel Huntington in Jamaica next year and co-locate Corona Arts and Sciences Academy with Civic Leadership Academy, Pan American International High School, Voyages Preparatory and Queens Transition Center in Elmhurst Educational Campus in 2015.
A public hearing for Samuel Huntington will be held at the 109-20 Union Hall Street school on October 9 at 6 p.m. and one will be held for Corona Arts on October 1 at 6 p.m. at 45-10 94th Street.
The PEP will vote on more than a dozen other co-locations proposed in other boroughs on October 15.
There were no notices scheduled for another city plan to add a new school within Martin Van Buren High School.
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