Editorial: Week of January 10
We applaud the citys decision to create a new elementary school and a new annex to an existing school in District 20.
The two new facilities included in the Department of Educations 2010-2014 capital plan — will help ease overcrowding in the district, which encompasses Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, as well as portions of Bensonhurst, Sunset Park, Boro Park and Kensington.
The district has historically been one of the most overcrowded in New York, with its good schools drawing an increasing number of families into the area. This has presented an ongoing challenge to educators, faced with steadily increasing enrollments as they are trying to reduce class sizes to improve educational outcomes one reason why the district got more than 5,000 seats during the last capital plan.