Chancellor Klein visits PS87:

On May 14th a group of 15 third graders from PS 87 in Manhattan hand-delivered a giant envelope containing budget cut protest letters written by themselves and some fifty of their classmates to Chancellor Klein's office at the DOE.

On June 17th, after more than a month of waiting and repeated requests to the DOE for a response to their unanswered letters, the kids were paid a personal visit by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. Fielding lots of questions from the kids, he defended the budget cuts. New York 1 sent a reporter, who while not allowed in the school as per DOE policy, covered Klein's visit and the parent protest outside the school building.