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Plan to rename after Civil War drummer angers some

A battle is brewing over whether to rename an elementary school after a Brooklyn boy who was killed in the Civil War.The Doris L. Cohen School/P.S. 230 is currently named after a longtime education advocate

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Apr 17, 2008, 6:45 PM

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