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Schools Chancellor Carranza announces
December town hall meeting in Maspeth
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza
announced that he will
hold a town hall meeting on
Community Education District 24 in
December in Maspeth.
The timing of the town hall comes
as a tense moment for the district
after the Queens district attorney’s
office announced in September that
it was investigating accusations that
Maspeth High School engaged in
grade fixing and cheating.
The forum is scheduled for 6:30
p.m. on Dec. 17 at P.S. 58 School of
Heroes, located at 72-24 Grand Ave.
The gathering will be followed by
District 24’s monthly meeting at
7:30 p.m.
The grade fixing debacle is far
from the only issue in the school
district, which contains 55 public
schools and stretches over Ridgewood,
Maspeth, Glendale, Middle
Village, Elmhurst, Corona, Woodside,
Long Island City and Sunnyside.
District 24 has the fourth-highest
level of overcrowding in the city,
according to a report released by
the City Council in 2018.
The host site, School of Heroes, is
an example of this trend. According
to an enrollment report, the school is
currently 37 students over its target
capacity.
On top of that, Councilman Robert
Holden, whose council district
overlaps with the most of the school
district, has recently been clashing
with the chancellor over a number
of issues.
Holden has played an instrumental
role in publicizing accusations
made by several MHS teachers
that the school’s administration of
intimidating them into passing all
their students. At the end of October,
Holden called on the U.S. Department
of Justice to investigate the entire
Department of Education for inflating
grades around the city.
Two weeks ago, the councilman
organized a protest aimed at Mayor
de Blasio and Carranza over the proposed
homeless shelter on Cooper
Avenue, which he has been advocating
to turn into a school for special
needs students for years. He accused
Carranza of personally killing his
plan to build a new school, before
one of Holden’s staffers mounted the
stage to call Carranza racist.
The town hall will provide Carranza
an opportunity to address
these issues and concerns among
others. To register for the town hall,
visit the Eventbrite site.
NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza in the rotunda at City Hall on
April 25, 2018. Photo Credit: Jeff Bachner
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