Comment on the Blue Book changes
The just announced change to the "Blue Book", the annual school capacity and utilization report, to attribute the enrollment in trailers or TCUs to the main building is a good one – and was recommended in our report, Space Crunch.
But we still need to know how many students are sitting in trailers – which DOE fails to report for thousands of high school students, and an unknown number of elementary, middle and District 75 students as well – especially if they plan to replace those seats.
Other reforms that will be necessary in order to achieve a more accurate picture of school overcrowding include:
· Providing a more reasonable number of cluster and specialty rooms for each school, in order to provide a well-rounded education;NYC Public School Parents: Comment on the Blue Book changes: