City approves Seth Low charter school plan
Policy panel rejects parent protests
Over the loud objections of parents and teachers from Seth Low Intermediate School, the New York City Panel for Educational Policy voted to approve a controversial plan to house a Success Academy charter school at the Bensonhurst location.
The vote took place at the panel’s meeting on Oct. 15 at Prospect Heights High School.
The outcome of the vote marked a sharp repudiation of the protests that have been waged over the past month by parents, teachers, lawmakers, and members of the Community Education Council of School District 21 against the co-location plan.
Hundreds of protesters turned out for the panel’s Oct. 15 meeting. The opponents had also come out in force back on Sept. 30, for a New York City Department of Education (DOE) public hearing at Seth Low IS, at 99 Avenue P.