P.S. Conservancy

If you A) encourage it with park conservancies like the kind you see at Central, Bryant, Madison and Prospect Parks and then B) cut funding and cram more kids into classrooms then you may find that your local school looks more like a public-private partnership than an example of equality of opportunity:

Nearly 200 teaching assistants and other school staffers get their paychecks from the city’s wealthiest PTAs in violation of Department of Education rules.

The PTAs that do the most rogue hiring are on the Upper East and Upper West sides of Manhattan.

Parents at Lower Lab School on Third Avenue pay for 43 extra staff members, the DOE revealed.

The parent groups contend their schools need the extra hands, and some principals encourage staff padding.