NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) — Leaders of New York City Public Schools are working on plans to address declining student enrollment, which could include merging schools, Chancellor Kamar Samuels said in an interview.
The county’s largest public school system is expected to lose 153,000 students over the next decade, according to projections released in March for the New York City School Construction Authority. The figures exclude students enrolled in the city’s special education district and offsite facilities.
“When we see enrollment declines, it means that some of our schools are going to be too small to be sustainable, and so we have to make sure that we’re working with our communities to think about how can we make a sustainable school,” Samuels said in an interview…