Class starts for some as other students turned away from schools as overcrowding worsens
Saturday, September 10th 2011, 4:00 AM
The city is packing more and more students into already overcrowded schools this fall, the Daily News has learned.
Reports of classes over the agreed size limits were also up across the city, teachers union officials said.
And some neighborhood kids are being turned away at their local schools, several principals and teachers complained Friday.
"It's a problem citywide; it's not just our school," said Rosa Maria Peralta, principal of the popular Public School 8 in the Bronx, who is searching for 100 spots at other schools for local kids who tried to register in the last week.
Sought-after PS 105 in Brooklyn is so flooded with kindergartners that the school added two new classes, but still had another 25 on its waitlist. "I wish we could take them all,
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