Donations Are a Windfall

The Child Development Center of the Hamptons may have closed its doors in June, but much of its furniture, books, and learning materials will continue to serve students. The Springs School Board announced during its Aug. 29 meeting that many of the defunct school’s resources had been donated to Springs, where 24 former students of the charter school are now enrolled.

Teacher’s desks and chairs, student’s chairs, bookshelves, several trapezoid-shaped desks for primary students, “cubby” units for student belongings, and filing and storage cabinets are among the items donated. Eric Casale, the Springs School principal, said it had received at least 100 items, not counting individual books and resource materials. He called the dollar value of the goods “immeasurable.”

Mr. Casale, several other Springs administrators, and the custodial crew had visited the charter school to take inventory and request what was needed.

“They had some really nice pieces of educational furniture that we’ll be able to use in the classrooms that we wouldn’t normally have had,” he said Tuesday, the day school opened. “We’re really grateful to them and their administrators.”

The furniture that was displaced is being put in storage, Mr. Casale said. “Some of it is a little bit older but in good shape, and if we ever need it for possible expansion, we’ll have the supplies and furniture handy.”

C.D.C.H. announced in May that about three months of negotiations for a potential management takeover by Kevin Gersh, who operates several private schools and after-school programs for children with special needs, had not been successful. Representatives of Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, the nonprofit organization that had managed C.D.C.H., could not be reached for comment.