Some fuming parents in Brooklyn’s high-achieving District 15 claim they were given barely any notice about a Monday meeting on a plan to change specialized high-school admissions.
Community Education ♔Council 15 — a parental advisory group — e-mailed out their overall agenda on Friday afternoon.
P♈arents said the alert was sent late to avoid a heavy turnout, and no🦄ted that a previous version of the agenda posted to Facebook on Oct. 30 made no mention of the issue.
“To think they would have a meeting lik🧸e this on such a major change is just not right,” said one parent who never heard about the gather🐷ing from his PTA or school.
Department of Educationᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ staffers have been touring di♛stricts to field questions and sell the proposal, which aims to boost diversity.
The often-raucous, well-attended CEC meetings have usually been🌞 held in school auditoriums.
But 🍌Monday’s assembly was held in a small conference room with about five non-CEC parents on hand, 𒈔and none posed a question to DOE representatives.
“That’s a pretty strong indication that nobody knew about th🅺is,”ไ said a parent. “I personally know multiples of that number who would have been there had they known.”
District 15, which includes Park Slope and Sunset Park, is co♚nsidered one of the city’s top academic communities and sends a high percentage of its students to the specialized high schools.
“All you have to know is that MS 51 is a top-10 feeder school,” said Stanley Ng, a former CEC 20 mem🌌ber and active opponent of the admissions changes. “It’s hard to believe that parents from that school would not show u🀅p.”
An initial CEC 15 agenda posted to Facebook and e-mailed out💫 on Oct. 30 made no mention of the DOE preseౠntation. A CEC source claimed the DOE had not yet confirmed its attendance at that point — and that the Friday update was sent out after it did so.
But the DOE said Tuesday that the meeting had been planned since 🥃August.
CEC president Camille Casaretti said she was not familiar with the exact dates or details of the agenda e-maiඣls and declined tཧo comment further. Another CEC source chalked up the late agenda to scheduling confusion.
After The Post’s inquiries, the CEC said it would host the presentation a second time in order to accommodate a🧜ny ad🐼ditional interested parties.
Known as liber🎃al-leaning, District 15 drew strong parental support earlier this year for a sweeping school🎉-diversification plan for its middle schools.