Parents in Brooklyn are meeting on Monday night to debate the Department of
Education’s plan to place a new Arabic Academy in their school
building.
The Khalil Gibran International Academy is finding opposition from
some parents at the Math and Science Exploratory School in Boerum Hill.
The PTA vice president at the school says her parents are more
concerned with the issue of space than with the mission of the new
academy. The Math and Science School already shares space with the
Brooklyn High School of the Arts.
The president of the teachers union said she welcomes the creation of the new school as long as there’s room for it.