News: NYC DOE Cuts a Full Class at Brooklyn Heights Elementary School
Submitted by Bethany Braun-Silva on
Overcrowding is a problem many NYC public schools face around the city. The increase in high rise development in many neighborhoods, in addition to the trend of more families gravitating to desirable neighborhoods, has some local schools bursting at the seams. The latest casualty of this trend is Brooklyn Heights' PS 8 who, for the first time in its history, may have to wait-list prospective students due to a 25-seat cut of its kindergarten capacity by the NYC Department of Education.