Two Brooklyn schools prepare for merger that would further student integration
This story was originally published on Dec. 11 by THE CITY.
District 13’s Community Education Council held a public meeting Monday night on its proposal to merge Fort Greene’s disproportionately white Academy of Arts and Letters with P.S. 305, an under-enrolled and majority-black elementary school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, starting in the 2020-2021 school year.
“We see this as an important moment to potentially create a model for integration for the district and the city writ large,” said Ennis Addison, an Arts and Letter parent who backs the merger. “To have frank conversations in the spirit of integration, that feels good.”