Updated 12/17/2008 04:16 PM
Brooklyn Special Needs Program To Stay Put Until 2010
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A Brooklyn school program for children with special needs has been allowed to stay at its current location until August 2010, when it must move to another place.
Children currently enrolling in “The Little Room Program” will be allowed to finish before the program is forced out of the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School on Court Street, according to the school’s board of trustees, which reached the decision in a meeting yesterday.
In a statement, the Montessori school board said it will create a task force to help find a new location for the program before November 2009.
The program serves 30 three- and four-year-old children with conditions including autism and social delays.
According to school officials, the 38-year-old program runs at a deficit, despite receiving more than a million dollars yearly in state funding. Yet they said other considerations besides finances went into the decision to move the program.
Parents have suggested the school appeal to the state for a higher rate of reimbursement.