Five schools in Brooklyn received $3.3 million in magnet school grants from the U.S. Department of Education, The Greenpoint Gazette reports. One school, MS 126, will receive $1.5 million over three years and is looking to develop an environmental engineering program. The decision was made by a vote of students, faculty and parents of the school. MS 126 has a student population that is about 72 percent Hispanic.?“Right now, we’re in the planning stages. The first goal of a magnet school is to de-segregate the school.?The situation now causes them to learn in isolation, and we need to attract different kinds of students to the school,” Principal Rosemary Ochoa said. “We want to bring our students into the fold and encourage them to advocate for the environment in Greenpoint and find ways to improve it, and they can find that knowledge here in the school,” Ochoa added.
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