Posted by The city’s new capital plan will build just two new high schools, although 59% of high schoolers are in overcrowded buildings.
Mayor Bloomberg’s new five-year, $11.3 billion capital plan includes $251.7 million for building high schools in Brooklyn and Queens, but none in the Bronx or Manhattan.
“My daughter’s been in an overcrowded school [for four years],” said Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, mother of Cassandra, a Bronx Theatre High School senior.
“There were 44 kids in her French class,” she said.
“It’s not fair to these kids,” said Maria Bright, co-president of the PTA at the Leadership Institute in the Bronx, where students go to school in three shifts. “They’re not getting a proper education.”
An Education Department spokesman said more than 5,000 new high school seats were planned for the Bronx in the next five years.
Source: NY Daily News
