Results tagged “privateschools”

With the economy changing people's financial situations, many parents who would have enrolled their children in private schools are looking to put their kids in highly regarded public schools, like P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, P.S. 199 and P.S. 87 on the Upper West Side and P.S.'s 6, 59 and 290 on the Upper East Side. So now parents trying to find their ways into the neighborhoods where these schools are—the NY Times speaks to a few of these desperate parents; one said she and her husband were considering subletting their apartment and then rent an apartment in a more attractive zone while one father said, "I will certainly consider some alternative way to game the system by gaining a different address. This is my child, who is a really smart kid, and he’s not going to my crummy zoned school. That’s just not going to happen." The Times also has some tips for parents, one being to research schools on Insideschools.org and another to make sure a potential home is actually in the school's zone.

They may have grown up privileged and prepped for success from birth, but a record number of four-year-olds are facing rejection from New York's top kindergarten programs. Fortunately, the parents of the doomed children are probably still young enough to procreate again and hope for better chances with their younger progeny.

A state judge has shot down Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to rent sports fields on Randalls Island to private schools because the administration failed to follow the legally required land-use review process when it made the deal. The plan was for private schools to pay $2.6 million a year for the next two decades in exchange for use of the renovated fields during peak hours from 3pm to 6pm. The Parks Department had agreed to contribute $65 million to refurbishing 36 sports fields and building new fields on 12.5 acres of the island.

Norman Siegel, former NYCLU director, is taking the city to court today on behalf of Harlem residents opposed to the city’s plan for sports fields on Randall's Island. The city is building 63 new fields on the island in addition to the 36 fields already there; the construction is being partially financed by a consortium of private schools who will be given exclusive access to most of the fields between 3pm and 6pm on weekdays.