The New York Daily News and The Gowanus Lounge reports today that the Khalil Gibran International Academy will move into PS 287, a school building in Ft. Green next year after growing too large for its current Boerum Hill location at the Brooklyn High School for the Arts. Let the controversey begin. Who can forget the brouhaha when the school was set to move into PS 282 in Park Slope and later when it moved into the building that also houses Math and Science Eplorations, a middle school.

PS 287 is located at 50 Navy Street. It is described on Inside Schools as “a spacious building within sight — and earshot — of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and the Manhattan Bridge, PS 287 is a small school that knows how to attract big supporters and resources. The school, which serves a high-poverty area, benefits from a stable leadership. The principal has been there for 17 years, supported by several longtime staff members (the librarian, art teacher, and parent coordinator among them), who are extremely committed to the school, as are a number of community organizations.”

Here’s what the Daily News had to say:

Some parents are concerned about older students from Khalil Gibran going to school alongside their elementary school kids. PS287 currently houses the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice, a high school that is moving into an old courthouse next year.

“We told them the high school children and elementary children are not a good mix. So why ignore us?” PTA President Edgardo Rivera wrote to parents.
The parents also questioned why their pleas to keep the school out failed, while parents from PS 282 in Park Slope successfully lobbied to keep the school out last year.

A schools spokeswoman said the Education Department would work to answer all of the parents’ questions.
In its first year, Khalil Gibran has suffered several setbacks, including having its founding principal step down last summer, only to see her later sue the city to get her job back. That matter is pending.