A slew of Brooklyn school closings coming up for vote
The fate of 21 schools in Brooklyn – closing, phasing out or opening – will be decided at the March 11 meeting of the Mayor’s Panel for Education Policy (PEP), to be held at Brooklyn Tech High School.
The changes range from the closure of Freedom Academy High School in Downtown Brooklyn to the co-location of a charter school — The New American Academy Charter School –with three existing schools in East Flatbush.
In many cases, the Department of Education (DOE) is phasing out one school and replacing it with two or more schools.
Struggling elementary school P.S. 174 Dumont in East New York is one the city proposes to phase out. Plans call for phasing in two new schools — a new elementary school and a new middle school — in the building.