Parents rip ’21 school-enroll delays

Frustrated city families are fed up with chronic delays in critical school-admissions guidance for next year.

After repeated pledges to reveal City Hall’s plans for the complex application process, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday that the information will now be revealed by the end of this month.

“We had some additional challenges in the last few weeks that we had to focus on with the coronavirus, but this month we’ll announce all the admissions approaches,” Hizzoner said at his daily briefing Wednesday.

But Deborah Alexander, president of Community Education Council 30, rejected City Hall’s defense for the delays and said it was presenting “permanent residence behind the 8 ball” as an excuse. She argued that the DOE has had nine months to fashion an admissions plan and that already-dazed families have been left to wander in a fog for too long.

“The DOE held community meetings in May and said we’d have an answer over the summer,” she said. “Two seasons and a string of excuses later, and we are still in the dark. As not only a parent, but a taxpayer, I’d like to know what the DOE — that has a dedicated admissions and enrollment department — has done for nine months on the issue.”

Sources said the department will take a small first step in preparing parents for the process this week by providing log-in codes to the agency’s admissions site.

But no additional details have been made available beyond that, and registrations have yet to open.