Lois Gregory News Today

For many New Yorkers, the term “private school” brings to mind exclusive schools with high five-figure price tags — the kind of schools you see depicted on TV shows such as “Gossip Girl.” That is simply wrong. There are hundreds of private schools all over the city meeting the educational needs of all types of New York families for a fraction of what taxpayers spend on our government-run schools — and more families should have the opportunity to choose them.

Instead of preparing for the coming academic year, the staff at the Learning Tree School in the Bronx is packing up and getting ready to move out of the building that has been its home for more than 20 years. The school lost its lease.