DOE to meet with parents shut out of Brooklyn’s P.S. 8
More than 700 sign petition
Parents at P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights have gathered more than 740 signatures on a petition urging the city to maintain six kindergarten classes there in order to ensure seats for all zoned students.
Because of overcrowding, pre-K classes have already been eliminated, and roughly 50 families have been put on a kindergarten waitlist.
Shut out families are demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio, Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina and other DOE officials devise “meaningful medium- and long-term solutions for overcrowding” – something they say has not yet been done despite several meetings over the past year with Department of Education (DOE) officials.