Concerns in Red Hook and Gowanus could slow down Brooklyn school rezoning plans
A coalition of Brooklyn activists is asking the education department to hit pause on a plan to overhaul elementary school attendance zones, saying more community input is necessary.
Education department leaders are proposing to rezone seven elementary schools in Brooklyn’s District 15 in the hopes of meeting two goals: relieving overcrowding at some of the area’s most coveted schools, and encouraging diversity in the district’s segregated schools.
But parents and community advocates in Red Hook and Gowanus, two of District 15’s least affluent areas, are raising concerns. They include community leaders who have poured their energy into P.S. 676, the Red Hook Neighborhood School, and say the rezoning plans don’t adequately address the needs of their school, one of the city’s lowest-performing.