NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Ninety-six percent of New York City’s public school classrooms have passed ventilation inspections — and the rest will undergo repairs before classes begin on Sept. 21, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.
The city has now conducted ventilation inspections at all 1,485 of its public school buildings, de Blasio said at a briefing Tuesday morning. Of the 64,550 classrooms the city inspected, approximately 96 percent “have passed and are ready to go," he said.
“Work will continue on the classrooms that need a little more to be done before school opens,” the mayor said. “There’s time, obviously, to make the improvements before school.”
“If any classroom is not ready, it will not be used,” he added. “It would only be used when it’s ready, but thank God the overwhelming majority of classrooms are ready right now.”
The city’s Department of Education will be posting ventilation inspection data on its website, he noted.
The DOE on Monday released a list of 10 school buildings that inspectors determined did not have adequate ventilation. DOE Deputy Press Secretary Nathaniel Styer
told NBC New York the repairs were expected to be carried out this week. A list of the 10 school buildings is below:
- P.S. 45 — Horace E. Green School
- P.S. 45 — Horace E. Green School (Annex Building)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus (The Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry; Urban Assembly School for Media Studies; High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice; High School of Arts and Technology; Manhattan/Hunter Science High School; Special Music School)
- P.S. M721 — Manhattan Occupational Training Center; Harvest Collegiate High School
- Leadership & Public Service High School
- P.S. Q222 — Firefighter Christopher A. Santora School
- P.S. 110 — The Riverview School
- P.S. M094 — Sixth Avenue Elementary School
- Norman Thomas High School Building (Success Academy Charter School — Harlem 1; Success Academy Charter School — Harlem 3; Manhattan Academy for Arts & Language; Murray Hill Academy; Unity Center for Urban Technologies)
- High School of Economics and Finance
