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Parents urge Council to press DOE on overcrowding as PS 889 faces classes of 33 students
Summary
Parents from PS 889 and other overcrowded schools told the Education Committee that DOE enrollment decisions have forced classrooms above legal class-size limits, eroding enrichment and spurring calls for the Council to tie funding to enrollment accountability.
Parents from overcrowded schools described how Department of Education enrollment decisions have left some buildings physically unable to comply with class-size law, producing classrooms of roughly 33 students and stripping space for enrichment.
Phoebe Assenza, a parent at PS 889 (District 22), told the committee her school’s second graders are on track to be placed in two classes of about 33 students each next year after…
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