Folks might be interested in the following article from the NYtimes entitled “Brooklyn School Receives Grant to Perfect Its Chinese:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/brooklyn-school-receives-grant-to-perfect-its-chinese/

“In speeches on education, President Obama has praised Medgar Evers College Preparatory High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for pushing its students to master reading, writing and math. So what does an inner-city school that garners a shout-out from the country’s leader do for an encore?

How about perfect its Chinese?

On Monday, the Asia Society announced that Medgar Evers, where nearly two-thirds of 950 students in the 6th through 11th grades already study Chinese, would receive $10,000 under a program to create quality Chinese-language programs: the Hanban-Asia Society Confucius Classrooms Network.”

There are also the local charter schools that we’ve blogged about: http://nostrandpark.com/2009/10/06/uncommon-charter-school-coming-to-crown-heights/ – though not sure if folks would consider these options “public schools” in the traditional sense.