FILE Photo/schools.nyc.gov
NEW YORK (WCBS 880/1010 WINS) – Mayor Bloomberg joined Schools Chancellor Joel Klein Wednesday to celebrate the opening of 26 new schools in New York City — including the Mott Haven educational campus in the Bronx.
The new $250 million Bronx campus will be ready to open when the fall school term begins next week. 2,300 students from the community will attend five brand new schools at the campus, 1010 WINS Senior Correspondent Stan Brooks reported.
“This used to be an abandoned rail yard with all sorts of issues, and now it’s the most beautiful building you could imagine,” Klein said.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. called the opening “historic” and Bloomberg said the campus symbolized the “revival of the south Bronx.”
WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported that the new schools will open up 17,000 brand new seats for students in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens to help deal with overcrowding.
For the full list of the new school openings, click here.
3 Comments
yes one for one
every one private school (privately funded, and those people also pay for public schools) that closes a publicly funded one opens. The voucher argument seems mute at this point. thing this was the plan all along? Wonder why this extraordinary expense, for the state to educate your children, is still deemed cost effective and necessary
February 2, 2011 at 6:04 am
this is not the school; i go there..the campus is 100 times better than this and i loove it (:
September 9, 2010 at 1:44 am
The picture shows a school bus. That can’t be real.
Mine is one of the new schools, and it isn’t nearly ready.
Things must be bad all over to start out with a story about this.
September 5, 2010 at 1:19 pm