City to add 39,500 public school seats over the next five years

ERIN DURKIN

The city will create 39,500 new public school seats over the next five years with $4.4 billion in construction money, officials said Tuesday.

The budget includes $490 million to reduce class sizes, and $480 million to scrap trailers used as temporary classrooms, deputy chancellor Kathleen Grimm told the City Council.

Neighborhoods getting the most new school seats include Corona and Elmhurst in Queens with 2,376, Dyker Heights in Brooklyn with 1,920, and Lower Manhattan with 1928. That still leaves demand for 16,685 more seats citywide that aren’t funded in the budget.


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