Plans for new schools on old campuses disclosed in New York City

Jan. 14, 2011
Two charter schools will be housed on high school campus in the Bronx

From The New York Times: New York City is planning to put two new charter schools in the place of the closing John F. Kennedy High School, a campus in the Bronx that used to enroll as many as 5,000 students at a time. It also is planning to place a new technology-themed school, which will go up to Grade 14 and is supported by IBM, in Paul Robeson High School, a closing Brooklyn school that advocates have been trying to save for its work educating at-risk youths.

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