Neighborhood Public Schools Returning To Manhattan

A new neighborhood high school is planned for Manhattan's Upper East Side, highlight a trend back toward public schools by middle class New Yorkers.

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June 13, 2001, 11:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera


"The Board of Education is planning to create an old-fashioned neighborhood high school, once considered an endangered species, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, under an agreement announced yesterday by the Board of Education and a group of elected officials. The new school is the culmination of several years of lobbying by middle-class Upper East Side parents. They have returned to the public schools after years of abandoning them, rejuvenating many elementary and middle schools. But they contend that the magnet schools do not provide the rigorous academic programs that their college- bound children are looking for." Some residents however fear that the planned school is not large enough for the needs of the neighborhood, and critics argue the school could end up serving only middle class white students from the area.

Thanks to Christian Peralta

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