David Yassky

Chancellor Klein:

Population rates have been soaring in Downtown Brooklyn for years, but the growing area still lacks a public middle school. With much of the new population consisting of young families, the need for a school is now becoming desperate. Council Member David Yassky has been meeting with various members of the Department of Education and the Bloomberg administration for quite some time, but so far, the City has refused to act.

Local parents, Council Member Yassky, Comptroller William C. Thompson and many others have publicly acknowledged that the City has failed to plan appropriately for growth in Downtown Brooklyn, and today it is refusing to accommodate schoolchildren in the area.

I urge you and the Department of Education to make good on your promise to put our children first by buying or building a public middle school in Downtown Brooklyn right away. Our children cannot afford to wait.

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