The Day: An Education Meeting, a Public Advocate Candidates’ Debate and Local Exercise

Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

Three days into fall, we’ve already had some chilly weather, especially in the mornings and evenings. Today, high temperatures will be comfortable, in the low 70s, according to the National Weather Service. But you’ll need a jacket if you step out in the evening, when temperatures are expected to drop into the upper 50s.

• Community Board 2’s Youth, Education and Cultural Affairs committee will hold a meeting today at 6 p.m. in the Borough President’s Conference Room at Brooklyn Borough Hall – 209 Joralemon Street at Court Street. At the meeting, Margaret Kelley, education policy analyst for the borough president, will speak about the Compass Charter School, which is expected to colocate next fall with the Ronald Edmunds Learning Center, also known as M.S. 113, at 300 Adelphi Street. She will also discuss The Brooklyn Lab School and International Charter School, which are applying to the New York State Education Department for charters to begin in September 2015. Representatives from those two schools will speak at the committee’s Oct. 23 monthly meeting.
• Council Member Letitia James debated with State Senator Daniel Squadron, her opponent in the public advocate runoff race, last night on NY1 News. The debate was bitter and “fiercely negative,” The New York Times reported. James argued that Squadron is an ally of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who endorsed him when he ran for State Senate in 2008, and that Squadron did not endorse William C. Thompson when he ran against Bloomberg in the 2009 election, The Times reported. Squadron called James untrustworthy, noting that she had not disclosed rental income from the tenants in her Brooklyn brownstone, and asserted that she was the only candidate for citywide office who had not released her tax returns, according to the article. The runoff election, which was required because none of the five candidates in the Democratic primary received 40 percent of the vote, will take place next Tuesday. With no Republican candidate, the winner of the runoff will take the office.
• Need some motivation to start exercising this fall? Why not stop by the Putnam Triangle Plaza on Fulton Street at Grand Avenue today for a Total Body Workout run by Jamel Gaines, the artistic director and founder of Creative Outlet Dance Theater of Brooklyn? There, you can practice African dance moves, ballet, kickboxing and step, among other activities. The class begins at 6:30 p.m. The Fulton Area Businesses Alliance, the Avenue NYC Program offered by the city’s Department of Small Business Services and Council Member Letitia James are sponsoring the class.