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Subject: SOUTH SHORE HIGH SCHOOL CLOSING !!

Author:
Harvey Zuckerman

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Date Posted: 19:03:08 12/12/06 Tue

5 SCHOOLS ARE BEING PHASED OUT
By DAVID ANDREATTA
Three of Brooklyn's oldest and most troubled high schools, along with two low-performing Manhattan high schools, are going the way of the dinosaur.
City education officials said yesterday that long-embattled Lafayette, Samuel Tilden and South Shore high schools will not accept ninth-graders for the upcoming school year and will gradually be phased out, one grade at a time, until they close for good.
The same procedure will take effect next school year at the smaller Urban Peace Academy and High School for the Physical City in Manhattan, as the city continues to replace large failing schools with smaller schools.
As the multiple grades at these schools are phased out, they will be replaced by single grades of new theme schools.
Officials said the number of small schools and their specialties are still being determined, although sources indicated Lafayette may play host to schools catering to immigrant students with limited English and students interested in pharmacology.
The restructuring comes at a sensitive time for all of the schools, but especially for Lafayette, whose growing pains under a new principal has been the focus of several news articles.
David Cantor, press secretary to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, stressed that the decision to reorganize Lafayette had nothing to do with the media coverage of its principal, Jolanta Rohloff.
"These have been very low-achieving, struggling schools for many years," Cantor said.
david.andreatta@nypost.com

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