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Officials agreed that the solution should be to even out discrepancies in the school system and improve education across the city. But amid weeks of parental protest against the plan, unveiled earlier this month by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, they did not agree on whether mergers would fix the inequities...
...plan released late last week by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro would force the Longfellow School to merge with two other elementary schools and create a larger “international” magnet school...
Last month, D’Alessandro faced parental outcry when she announced that three schools would have to close or merge. According to D’Alessandro, the plan is not as drastic as she had originally intended because it closes only two schools...
...Alessandro said she did not expect any school employees to be fired as a result of the merger...
While D’Alessandro said the merger will raise test scores, she said it would improve both programs...