NEW YORK
The Department of Education finalized the first part of its closures list Thursday and announced rest Friday.
There were 47 schools are under consideration, including 20 elementary and middle schools and 21 high schools. Half a dozen of them are charter schools.
Ninteen schools are now slated for closure, including Jane Addams High School For Academic Careers in the Bronx, where students were recently alleged to have gotten credits for classes they did not take.
Six other schools will lose their middle school grades, 6 through 8.
The 19 schools proposed for phase-out are:
P.S. 019 Roberto Clemente Elementary
General D. Chappie James Elementary School of Science
P.S. 014 Cornelius Vanderbilt
Legacy School For Integrated Studies
Manhattan Theatre Lab High School
Gateway School For Environmental Research and Technology
Jane Addams High School For Academic Careers
International Arts Business Schoo
Satellite Three
Middle School For The Arts
J.H.S. 296 The Anna Gonzalez Community School
Academy Of Business And Community Development
P.S. 022
P.S. 215 Lucretia Mott
Washington Irving High School
Samuel Gompers Career And Technical Education High School
Grace Dodge Career And Technical Education High School
Aspire Preparatory Middle School
Knowledge And Power Preparatory Academy VII
The six schools proposed for middle school truncation are:
P.S. 161 The Crown
Academy For Scholarship And Entrepreneurship
Brooklyn Collegiate: A College Board School
P.S. 298 Dr. Betty Shabazz
Wadleigh Secondary School For The Performing Arts
Frederick Douglass Academy IV
The remaining 16 schools that were engaged with but will not be proposing for phase out are:
P.S. 137 John L. Bernstein
High School Of Graphic Communication Arts
Frederick Douglass Academy II
P.S. 277
Herbert H. Lehman High School
New Millennium Business Academy Middle School
Fordham Leadership Academy For Business And Technology
M.S. 142 John Philip Sousa
P.S. 256 Benjamin Banneker
Freedom Academy High School
Juan Morel Campos Secondary School
I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln
Cypress Hills Collegiate Preparatory School
General D. Chappie James Middle School of Science
P.S. 181 Brookfield
Law, Government And Community Service High School
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