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Christ the King High School reaches
settlement to keep charter school open
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Christ the King High School
(CTK) has reached a settlement
with the Diocese of Brooklyn
over a lawsuit aimed at stopping
the Catholic school from operating
a charter school on its campus.
The agreement will allow Middle
Village Preparatory Charter School
(MVP) and Christ the King Community
Day Care to continue to
operate on the CTK campus, with
the assurance that the majority of
the property will be used as a Roman
Catholic high school and that
the diocese will receive one member
on the CTK board of trustees.
“With this agreement, the parties
look forward to their continued relationship
with a renewed commitment
to keeping alive the Catholic
Church’s mission and fostering the
spiritual and educational growth of
students and their families in our
community,” a school spokesperson
wrote in a statement.
The pact marks the end of a threeyear
legal battle that stemmed from
the well-regarded Catholic private
school’s independence from the
diocese.
The diocese took legal action in
March 2017 to compel the CTK board
of trustees to disband MVP, which
had been operating on the high
school’s campus since 2013 on the
grounds that it was not part of the
Catholic high school.
The original lawsuit claimed
that the charter school violated the
terms of an agreement the two parties
signed in 1976.
While that agreement allowed
CTK to form a board of trustees and
manage the school independently
of the diocese, it also reportedly
involved a condition that CTK could
not use the campus for any purpose
outside the Catholic school.
In March of 2017 and again in
September of 2017, a Supreme
Court Justice ruled in favor of the
diocese, but the charter school was
allowed to remain open during the
proceedings.
In 2018, the New York State Supreme
Court Appellate Division
voted to overturn the previous ruling
that would have forced MVP to
cease operating on the campus.
That legal win put the lawsuit in
gave the CTK leadership hope that
the diocese might drop the lawsuit.
With the settlement, CTK got its
wish.
Middle Village Preparatory Charter School on the Christ the King High School campus. File photo/QNS
Cyclist in serious condition after being
struck by driver in Woodhaven: NYPD
BY JACOB KAYE
JKAYE@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
A cyclist was hit by a driver in
the vicinity of Woodhaven
Boulevard and Park Lane South
in Woodhaven on Thursday, March 5,
according to the NYPD.
The 17-year-old cyclist suffered
trauma to the head and is in serious
condition after being hit by the 22-
year-old driver around 11:30 a.m.,
according to police. The cyclist was
transported to Long Island Jewish
Hospital.
The driver of the car remained
at the scene after the crash. Police
would not confirm if the driver was
arrested and said that an investigation
is ongoing.
One cyclist has been killed after
being struck by a car driver so far
this year, according to the latest data
provided by the NYPD.
A 17-year-old victim, whose face has been blurred to protect his
identity, was treated by COPCP community patrol while they waited
for an ambulance. Courtesy of COPCP
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