A community-driven process in Red Hook, Brooklyn, led to parents to call for phasing out an elementary school and replacing it with a middle school. The process could serve as a model for these kinds of thorny school-level proposals moving forward.
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Proposing to close a school is almost always controversial, pitting the education department against parents and teachers who often argue they haven’t been given a fair chance. But in one corner of Brooklyn, that dynamic has flipped.
Families from Red Hook’s P.S. 676, along with their principal, have successfully advocated to phase out their school.