A Call for Parents’ Say Over Co-Locations
Members of the New York State Assembly and Senate, parents and education advocates called for state legislation on Tuesday to give local school advisory panels the power to veto school co-locations in their districts.
The proposed legislation would ensure that no school could be co-located with another, reconfigured or moved to a different site unless the community education council for the area approves it.
The legislation has not yet been introduced, but Assemblyman Keith Wright of Harlem has said he would sponsor a bill.
Councilman Robert Jackson of Manhattan said the legislation would address a “boiling point” in the relationship
