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Two Bronx schools are history due to poor report card

(12/05/07) TREMONT ? They didn?t make the grade, and now two Bronx public schools will close their doors or get phased out due to poor performance. P.S. 79 and I.S. 216 are among six in the city set

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Dec 5, 2007, 1:49 PM

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