
DOE’s literacy head moving to new Brooklyn dyslexia school

CROWN HEIGHTS – PLANS FOR THE Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy are moving ahead, with top Department of Education official Jason Borges stepping down at the end of January from his post as executive director of Literacy and Academic Intervention Services to become the prospective school’s program director, Chalkbeat reports – if the academy can find the space it needs to open.
The CBLA project was first announced last year; the school would offer a specialized second-through-eighth grade program focusing on serving students with dyslexia and other reading difficulties, and hopes to accept its first classes of second and third graders this fall. The DOE has planned to locate the school in the building currently occupied by M.S. 394 in Crown Heights, which it wants to close over low enrollment. Parents at 394 have pushed back against this proposal, however, leading the city’s Panel for Educational Policy to postpone an approval vote on the matter originally scheduled for last month.
A DOE spokesperson told Chalkbeat that the city is looking at alternative sites for the CBLA program, should M.S. 394 remain open.
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