Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Brooklyn Paper: Big money could ‘PAVE’ the way for new Red Hook school


The Brooklyn Paper: Big money could ‘PAVE’ the way for new Red Hook school:

"A controversial charter school sought to diffuse mounting tensions inside the Red Hook building it shares with a public school by dropping the bombshell news that has almost all the money it needs to build its own permanent facility.

The news from the PAVE Academy came in a call to The Brooklyn Paper on Thursday — one day after PS 15 parents held an emergency meeting to plot their next move against a charter school that the parents feel was plotting to push out the long-standing public school from the Wolcott Street building.

That fear reached a fever pitch last week when the Department of Education released an “educational impact statement” that declared the school building capabl"