03/06/08 - Shame on Betty Sternberg - Pre-K Children are going to be carted 10 miles across town

Why can't pre-k students go to St Rochs?
The YMCA Daycare has been there for years and they are not even using half the building.

Schools make space available for Ham Ave.

Hamilton Avenue School teachers will move into the new locations around the district beginning today, after days of frenzied preparation following the closure of their temporary modulars because of mold.

At Western Middle School, Principal Stacey Gross said the four fourth- and fifth-grade classes coming in have been assigned to classrooms in a separate parts of the building to minimize interaction with middle school students. Several classrooms in relocation schools have been converted from art and music rooms, and so those classes will be held using a traveling cart, instead of a dedicated classroom.

"It's a tough situation. They're definitely making sacrifices," Gross said of displaced teachers.....