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| Title | News Article: New York Small Schools Lose Immigrant Programs |
| Body | From http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/education/14education.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=education On Different Pages With Bilingual Education By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN February 14, 2007 Lafayette High School in Brooklyn and Samuel J. Tilden High School in East Flatbush have been ordered to shut down, condemned as educational failures, and converted into several new small schools. However, none of those new schools is geared towards the large immigrant populations served by the larger schools. In the trade-off for the closing of Lafayette and Tilden, with the net loss of about 800 places in bilingual and E.S.L. classes, the Education Department has announced the opening of only one small school geared to immigrant pupils in the entire borough. And even now, less than two weeks before eighth graders throughout the city must submit their applications to high schools, the department has not revealed the location of that school, the Multicultural High School. For all any parent or child knows at this point, it could be anywhere from Bay Ridge to Brownsville. Read the entire article at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/education/14education.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=education . |
| Source | The New York Times |
| Inputdate | 2007-02-18 10:56:55 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-02-18 10:56:55 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-02-19 00:00:00 |
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