They have a collective 640,000 followers in the virtual world of Twitter.
But the parent bloggers who met with Mayor de Blasio at City Hall on Friday to talk universal pre-K and expanded after-school programs had concerns centered on the real world: classroom space.
“So many of our schools are overcrowded,” said Serena Norr, whose daughter attends Cobble Hill Success Academy in Brooklyn. “How are you going to allocate enough space?”
After years of parents insisting that public schools are bursting at the seams, many still wonder how de Blasio intends to expand full-day pre-K by 33,300 seats come September.
“Space is big concern regarding universal pre-K implementation,” tweeted Anna Fader, a public-school parent who attended the City Hall sit-down and who blogs as Mommy Poppins.
Despite the doubts, the mayor says his administration has already identified a potential 29,000 new pre-K seats — most of them in community group buildings.
Identifying classroom space is one of the biggest hurdles de Blasio faces in his bid to expand full-day pre-K and after-school programs sharply by the fall.