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June 27, 2011
Rally against Brooklyn Success co-location is canceled abruptly
A small gathering of protesters join Basilica Johnson (left), the parent of an autistic son who opposes a charter school co-location in her school building.
A Bedford-Stuyvesant school protest that was supposed to end up at Tweed Courthouse was cancelled abruptly this morning because too few people showed up.
Basilica Johnson, whose son Deron is autistic and one of 72 special- needs students enrolled at the Star Program, organized the rally because of concerns she had about a proposal to open Brooklyn Success Academy, a new charter school, inside the building. The Star Program would lose two classrooms this fall under the plan.
About a half dozen others joined Johnson at 8:30 a.m. for the protest, which was advertised to end with a larger rally outside of Tweed at 10:30 a.m. They distributed hand-outs and carried signs, but after about 90 minutes, Johnson called the protest off.
Many of her fellow parents weren’t aware of the co-location plans, she said. (more…)
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