At 12th Street Academy, many of Ms. Easton's students wonder who will be there for them if the school closes.
Mr. Levy bridles at the argument that he should make allowances for the 12th Street Academy because of the background of its students.
Bernadette Smith, a 43-year-old mother of five, calls the opening of Green Street Academy, a small environmentally themed school in the building of the defunct West Baltimore Middle School, "a divine intervention".
The 12th Street Academy was created to be a place where students could cultivate intimate, informal relationships with their teachers, and where they would learn through exploration and their own research, rather than through conventional textbooks.
Louisiana has a much-publicized weight problem in general and also sends a high number of players per capita to the N.F.L. Mickey Joseph, the coach at Desire Street Academy and a former quarterback at Nebraska, said that coaches should undergo mandatory instruction on monitoring the weight of high school players.
But Mr. Sanders said he thought Mr. Levy had made a mistake in failing to consult the community school board, weak though it might be, before making plans to close the two schools, Public School 97 and the 12th Street Academy, and reassign their students to other schools.
With an entrepreneurial spirit, the team has set up a not-for-profit social enterprise in the Shelter Street Academy; has established a telephone team providing welcome calling to new donors and paid work for our service users; and has set up the first supporter magazine of its kind, called "Here".
Two other intermediate programs are at Inwood School (I.S. 52) at 650 Academy Street and Salome Urena School (I.S. 218), which houses a business and humanities academy, at 4600 Broadway.
Academy Street, by Mary Costello (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Academy Street by Mary Costello (Ireland), debut novel.
