New City Council bill aims to overhaul city space estimates
New legislation introduced in the City Council aims to change the way the city decides when a school is filled to capacity.
Many of the city’s most heated education battles, from how to solve overcrowding to the charter school space wars, boil down to one question: whether the city has adequately planned how many students fit in each school building.
The bill, sponsored by 23 of the Council’s 51 members, would require the Department of Education to break down its space capacity estimates into much more detail than the city currently reports. Instead of offering a single figure for how many students a school building can accommodate, generated by an abstruse formula, the city would have to reveal specific data points about each building, such as whether rooms such as gymnasiums, libraries or science labs have been converted to general classroom space.
The bill would also require the city to use the class size limits the state has set when planning how buildings will
Bronx high school may be the last of its kind to see scanners
For it’s size, which is colossal, Herbert Lehman High School has been one of the Bronx’s safest high schools for years. But recent changes and a spate of fights have put the school on track to get permanent metal detectors next year.
If Lehman does get scanners, it means there will be no large, comprehensive high school in the Bronx without them.
Department of Education spokesman Marge Feinberg said the city’s police department has yet to decide whether to install permanent scanners next year, but students and teachers at the school said they’ve been told to expect scanners in September.
Metal detectors in airports and government buildings are standard fare, but in the city’s public schools, they’re
Many of the city’s most heated education battles, from how to solve overcrowding to the charter school space wars, boil down to one question: whether the city has adequately planned how many students fit in each school building.
The bill, sponsored by 23 of the Council’s 51 members, would require the Department of Education to break down its space capacity estimates into much more detail than the city currently reports. Instead of offering a single figure for how many students a school building can accommodate, generated by an abstruse formula, the city would have to reveal specific data points about each building, such as whether rooms such as gymnasiums, libraries or science labs have been converted to general classroom space.
The bill would also require the city to use the class size limits the state has set when planning how buildings will
Bronx high school may be the last of its kind to see scanners
For it’s size, which is colossal, Herbert Lehman High School has been one of the Bronx’s safest high schools for years. But recent changes and a spate of fights have put the school on track to get permanent metal detectors next year.If Lehman does get scanners, it means there will be no large, comprehensive high school in the Bronx without them.
Department of Education spokesman Marge Feinberg said the city’s police department has yet to decide whether to install permanent scanners next year, but students and teachers at the school said they’ve been told to expect scanners in September.
Metal detectors in airports and government buildings are standard fare, but in the city’s public schools, they’re
