DANIEL DROMM, Democrat for City Council

School Overcrowding
Our district has urgent needs in education. Now is the time for a leader to act boldly and wisely, to build a new foundation for progress. It's an agenda that begins with education.

We can not compete as a community with schools that are overcrowded. I conduced an analysis of public schools in our district and was alarmed at the extent of how overcrowded our schools truly are.

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It is shameful that we have schools like PS 228 operated at 231% of capacity. Of the 18 schools serving our district, 13 are over-capacity. We need to immediately address this problem. As your City Council representative, I will make it a top priority to build more classrooms in our district. I will vigorously pursue federal recovery funds to expand schools in our area and to build new ones.

source: Dept of Education & insideschools.org

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