NYC colleges to open 24 new buildings with fashionable lecture rooms, group areas, superior expertise
NEW YORK (WABC) — New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams and Faculties Chancellor David Banks introduced on Wednesday that 24 new college buildings are opening this yr.
Their announcement comes the day earlier than the beginning of the 2024-2025 college yr for public college college students.
The 2 dozen new college buildings will embrace 11,010 new seats throughout the town. It marks essentially the most new Ok-12 seats opened by the Faculty Development Authority since 2003.
The brand new buildings are unfold throughout 4 boroughs together with 9 in Brooklyn, eight within the Bronx, one in Manhattan, and 6 in Queens. They had been constructed with inexperienced areas and environmentally pleasant supplies.
Key options embrace progressive studying areas and lecture rooms geared up with the most recent expertise, versatile house and furnishings and collaborative work areas.
The buildings even have a give attention to group integration with multi-purpose areas.
“Our administration is dedicated to giving our youngsters a first-class schooling, and an important a part of an incredible schooling is gaining access to nice services,” mentioned Mayor Adams. “With fashionable and versatile areas, state-of-the-art expertise, science labs, music rooms, sensory gyms, and extra, these new colleges are going to be unimaginable areas for college kids and employees alike, will play an important function in fostering a way of well-being for our youngsters, and can assist us construct a safer, extra reasonably priced, and extra livable metropolis.”
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