Regents Collins would like to see
city school buildings used as a tool to support students and parents beyond the normal school day.
Tapestry leaders want to buy a former
city school building on Olympic Avenue, expanding off of its current site on Great Arrow.
Underused city school buildings, out - of - use Catholic schools, public - housing community centers, and local nonprofits could also all potentially host the new pre-K seats.
The ACLU of Maryland's Education Reform Project is leading the campaign for a funding plan to renovate and modernize every
Baltimore City school building by 2020.
But after Mr. Cuomo last year pushed through a law giving charter schools more power to obtain free space
in city school buildings, Mr. de Blasio's administration appears wary of doing anything that could jeopardize its biggest priorities in Albany, which include getting mayoral control of schools renewed and securing more aid for prekindergarten, after - school programs and city schools in general.
The schools were supposed to share space, or be co-located, in
city school buildings.
«We can not afford to gamble with the health and well - being of our 1.1 million schoolchildren or the teachers, principals and other staff that work in
city school buildings.»
During the past two years, the DOE gave Moskowitz's controversial chain, Success Academy, rent - free space in
city school buildings to open 14 new co-location sites.
The Joint Schools project revamp 48 -
city school buildings.
Whether it's essentially taxing charter schools by charging them rent to use
city school buildings, like DeBlasio wants; or otherwise throwing sand in the gears of charter growth by halting new co-locations, like both men want, the stakes are high for charters in this election.
But after Mr. Cuomo last year pushed through a law giving charter schools more power to obtain free space in
city school buildings, Mr. de Blasio's administration appears wary of doing anything that could jeopardize its biggest priorities in Albany, which include getting mayoral control of schools renewed and securing more aid for prekindergarten, after - school programs and city schools in general.
The fixtures remain in some 800 of 1,200
city school buildings, the answers Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has disputed the urgency of replacing all of the T -12-style fluorescent lighting, estimating it would cost about $ 1 billion.
«This just points to why our facilities plan is so important,» House - Foster said, referring to the school system's recent campaign to fund more than $ 2 billion in upgrades to
city school buildings.