The meeting propelled the obscure panel, the successor to the New York City Board of Education, to the center of the anger generated by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's push to close persistently low performing schools.
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S. aureus colonizes approximately 30% of the population persistently, and close to 60% transiently.
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Since the mayor took control of the system in 2002, more than 90 schools have been closed, many of them large, persistently struggling high schools that the city deemed unable to quickly turn around.
His first year, 2008, he had two schools on the list of persistently failing schools and thus in danger of being closed.
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After adjusting for CRIB II score, OI, intubation for more than 2 days, and culture proven bacteremia, the odds ratio of having CLD in surviving babies with persistently hemodynamically significant PDA is still significantly higher when compared to those whose PDA was successfully closed with one or two courses of COI.
Byrd-Bennett's argument that the schools should close because they were enrolled below their capacity was intended to counter another argument that was persistently bubbling up across the city — that the school-closing process was racist, and the schools were being closed because they served black students and, in many cases, employed black teachers.
She also said, more broadly, that struggling schools should be given more of a chance to improve before they are closed, pointing to places like Middle School 399 in the Bronx, which showed increases in test scores with its lowest-performing students and was recently removed from the state's list of persistently dangerous schools.
