Proposed PLG charter school needs your support

The planning team for the Lefferts Gardens Charter School (LGCS), including yours truly, is hoping to get approval from the Board of Education to launch a k-8 "green" school in Prospect Lefferts Gardens (PLG) next year. The application is due at the end of this June and we're feverishly working to pull everything together. Want to help?

Here's how: we need letters of support from community groups, local politicians, and parents of school-age kids who could enroll in the school. (PLG and most of Crown Heights are district 17; in the event of a lottery, kids from this district will get preference) These letters should state who you are -- e.g. Crown Heights resident and parent of Johnny Doe, 5 years -- and the fact that you support a school such as ours: one that takes a child-centered learning approach to environmental-science. Other possible points to mention include the need for an alternative school in our neighborhood and ways you might be able to help the school.

We are especially interested in getting letters from parents whose kids will be in either kindergarten, first grade, or sixth grade in the 2010-2011 school year (which is when we're hoping to start).

Here are a few sample letters to give you an idea:
http://stayfree.typepad.com/files/sample-letters.pdf

...as well as some more info about the proposed school:
http://stayfree.typepad.com/files/lgcssummary.pdf

So far, we've received letters from the Maple Street School, the Audubon Center, the Botanic Gardens, the Brooklyn Center for Urban Development, Lefferts Manor Association, PLG United Voices for Peace and Justice, and State Senator Eric Adams.

You can email your letters to me at brooklynite282 @ gmail or mail them to the address below. If you need any more information, just ask.

thanks,
carrie mclaren
23 hawthorne street
Blkn, NY 11225

p.s. Does anyone have a large building they want to give us? (We'll settle for just the land.)