This from the New York Times.

The city’s Department of Education abandoned plans yesterday to
place the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a fledgling public
school that is to be devoted to the study of the Arabic language and
culture, in the same building in Park Slope, Brooklyn, that houses
Public School 282.

Instead, the department will try to
open the Khalil Gibran school in September in another building.
Department officials declined to comment on the locations being
considered.

The move comes after a campaign against the school by
parents of children at P.S. 282, who for months have barraged Schools
Chancellor Joel I. Klein’s
office with e-mail messages and protested outside department
headquarters over the plans for the two schools to share a building.

The
parents said they were worried about losing classroom space and
activities to accommodate the Khalil Gibran school. In recent weeks,
some columnists in The New York Sun joined the battle, with accusations
that the school was a madrassa, which teaches the Koran, a claim the
department dismissed.