Brooklyn middle school students squeezed out of study space by 3 charter schools sharing building

Students and parents at a Brooklyn middle school are fuming after they were pushed out of their newly spruced-up library by an expanding charter school.

Junior High School 126 kids have severely limited access to the cozy, mural-painted reading spot this year so the three charters sharing the Greenpoint building can use the space for planning, meetings and small classes.

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Access to the library for more than 400 middle schoolers will be restricted to one side of the space for less than two hours each day, with an extra hour on Wednesdays.

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That's of little comfort to JHS 126 eighth-grader Ashley, who said she's been stuck with a fifth-grade-level independent reading book because she hasn't been able to get into the library yet. She's also worried about completing final projects required for graduation.

"We have no way of researching," said the 14-year-old student. The area near the library in her Bushwick neighborhood is dangerous, she said.

more . . . http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/10/06/2009-10-06_kids_slam_library_land_grab_jhs_126_squeezed_out_of_study_space_by_3_charter_sch.html

They are organizing to move the process along quickly.

Green Dot is one who is taking over many CA schools.

This sickens me, but I am recommending.

The district wouldn't pay for it so the librarian raised the money. She turned the library into a castle. Then the district made this agreement to share it with the charters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8jqwGxUKpg

I sure agree with that statement. When I lived in NYC, Bushwick was one hell of a neighborhood; and if that's where this school is, those kids are poor and underpriviliged and need access to a library.

for that exact reason. Then about 20 years ago, they began to build their own branch libraries. Those are nicer than the libraries housed in school buildings but often are in neighborhoods that are unsafe.