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Prodigy, 21, about to become doctor
NEW YORK, March 3 (UPI) -- New York City school officials, casting about for solutions to chronic problems teaching young adolescents, plan to close numerous middle schools.
The move is part of an overhaul of as many as two-thirds of the city's 218 middle schools, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
In place of the middle schools, officials plan to recreate old-style kindergarten-through-eighth-grade grammar schools and open new high schools for the 6th to 12th grades.
As many as 36 of the new schools would be in place by September, but many conversions will have to await the construction of new buildings over the next five years.
"We are developing a multiyear comprehensive plan," said Michele Cahill, senior counselor for educational policy to Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein.
"We are looking as soon as September 2004 to have more configurations that we think improve continuity and improve student-teacher connectedness."
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