The final plan includes moving several schools and redrawing the zone lines for several others, all in a bid to reduce overcrowding and alleviate the deeply entrenched racial segregation between different schools in the neighborhood.
The debate on this issue has gone on for more than a year.
We can see the school that we're no longer going to be able to go to from his bedroom window." "It's very upsetting," said parent Elyse Riley. But I think it helps us integrate the community better," said Susannah Blum, a teacher at PS 191. "There is no proposal that's going to be 100 percent perfect, and there are people that are going to be upset with any proposal. The audience of parents, teachers and property owners was very divided.Īt issue is a major rezoning that will affect 11 schools spanning the entire Upper West Side, from 59th Street up to 116th Street. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report. A parent council on the Upper West Side has voted in favor of a controversial school rezoning plan with racial undertones.
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