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Failing Brooklyn high schools to permanently shut doors

Three underperforming Brooklyn high schools will permanently shut their doors in a move by the Department of Education (DOE). Lafayette High School students learned the news Tuesday when they arrived

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Dec 12, 2006, 3:48 PM

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