http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/education/14CLAS.html?pagewanted=all&position=
(article about the problems of having mini schools where, for example,
all the students wear uniforms and are members of Air Force junior
ROTC inside a big general high school)
At DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, the alumni association
lobbied the Department of Education to remove the one small school
planted there this year, the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music.
"What they were doing was taking one of the strengths of Clinton,
which is a music department, and they wanted to break it out of the
school," said Robert Esnard, a former New York City deputy mayor who
graduated from Clinton in 1956 and is treasurer of the alumni
association. "There is nothing wrong with small schools, and my view
is there's nothing wrong with big schools if it's done right."
Next year, Celia Cruz will move, probably to Walton
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