Joint Public Hearing Planning Springfield Gardens Campus

Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 
Time: 6 p.m. 
Where: Teleconference, https://learndoe.org/districtplanning/ (goes live Dec. 20).
  
  The Proposed Opening and Co-location of a New Success Academy Charter Elementary School (84QTBD) with Queens Preparatory Academy (29Q248), Excelsior Preparatory High School (29Q265), George Washington Carver High School for the Sciences (29Q272), and Preparatory Academy for Writers: A College Board School (29Q283) in Building Q420 Beginning in the 2023- 2024 School Year A Joint Public Hearing (JPH) will be held to provide the public with an opportunity to learn more about the above-referenced proposal and to present comments or concerns on the proposal.
 
   You can sign up to speak at the Joint Public Hearing starting at 5:30 p.m. Speaker sign-up will close 15 minutes after the hearing begins.
 
  How the JPH will proceed: 
• Make sure your equipment works with the tech-check link above 
• If you are going to speak, sign-up opens at 5:30pm and closes at 6:15pm. Speakers will be given the opportunity to speak in the order that they sign-up 
• Each speaker will be given 2 minutes to speak. 
• The Hearing will begin promptly at 6:00pm and will be recorded. 
• There will be a statement read including information from the Educational Impact Statement (EIS). 
• Since it is a Joint Public Hearing, any member of the schools’ SLT will be allowed to speak first (unlimited time). 
• They may then turn to school-aged children before turning to elected officials. 
• They will then turn to the rest of the general public for comments. 
• Speakers will be placed in the order that they sign-up. 
• The hearing will continue until the last speaker present speaks.