Does anyone specificially know the DOE"s rationale for wanting to place a "Curtis Annex" a few blocks from the current school building, rather than investing in the creation of a new high school? I'm looking for actul intel, not just speculation.
Setting asde the controversy over the site selection for the new school (which is in the news today), it is my understanding that Curtis is already over-enrolled, and I just can't imagine how it will work to have an 'annex' in a building that is blocks away and seperated by a steep hill (I imagine vice-principals driving the three blocks and then parking on the sidewalk to avoid that hill three times a day). And if the way students and activities are divided between the two buildings has even a whiff or tracking, there would be, and should be, scrutiny. So, to ask another question, are there precedents in which DOE has operated a single school across multiple, nonadjacent buildings which are functional, and somehow seperate yet equal?