Central Park East I & II’s Future

Posted on January 31, 2013 by debmeier

Dear friends,

Please support the wonderful, historic, progressive Central Park East I and II elementary schools as they try to expand into a middle school to provide a much-needed progressive middle school alternative in upper Manhattan. Their proposal to open a middle school has been turned down by the DOE four years in a row, most recently because there was allegedly no space for the middle school. But at the same time a new charter school, the East Harlem Scholars’ Academy, was allowed to open on the third floor of CPE I’s building. It was supposed to be temporary, for two years only, but now they have applied for a three-year extension and in addition–on the basis of their “proven” year-and-a-half of excellence (!)– to start a second school, East Harlem Scholars’ Academy II, in the building as well. There will be a co-location hearing on February 27.

The two CPE schools are mounting a campaign to get their own middle school expansion approved and have started a Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/CentralParkEastMiddleSchoolCampaign

Please take a moment to like the page! This is a public relations campaign as much as anything.

Thanks, Anne

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