Your editorial of March 31, “Oh no, It’s a school!” is wrong to attribute the vigorous opposition to a new school in Bayside Hills to an attitude of NIMBY. The Department of Education is proposing to build upon the site of a synagogue i
In the first place the site is much too small, in fact so small as to put into question the motive for its selection. My children go to a school in the District with fewer children. That school, typical of others, is on a site of approximately 113,400 s
Oh no, It’s a School!
The city Department of Education’s School Construction Authority wants to build a 46,300-square-foot school for 440 students from pre-kindergarten to third grade at 211-06 48th Ave. The school would be located at the site of a Jewish community cente
Fund cuts adversely affect boro schools
In total, $1.3 billion has been cut from each year of the Department of Education’s five-year capital plan, $167 million of which has already been earmarked for specific projects. The original five-year plan has now been extended by the administrati
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