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# Panel Votes To Close Sheepshead Bay High School, Dewey High School
- URL: https://bklyner.com/panel-votes-to-close-sheepshead-bay-high-school-dewey-high-school-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2012-04-27T18:00:31.000Z
- Updated: 2012-04-27T17:21:45.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: #API-Imported

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Sheepshead Bay H.S. students protest the DOE's plans before a March hearing (Photo by Robert Fernandez)

[Sheepshead Bay High School](/tag/sheepshead-bay-high-school/) and John Dewey High School will close doors in June, a city panel decided last night despite objections from those closest to the schools.

The schools are both targeted for reform using a federal “[turnaround model](/sheepshead-bay-h-s-slated-for-closure-and-turnaround-hearing-to-be-held-march-28/)” – which requires firing at least half the staff. The plan has spurred c[ondemnation from parents, teachers and students](/sheepshead-bay-h-s-teachers-feel-turnaround-plan-is-a-wrench-in-the-works/) as [we’ve previously reported](/fidler-save-sheepshead-bay-h-s-turn-it-into-education-laboratory/).

The Panel for Education Policy made the final decision last night, when they [voted to close all 24 high schools](http://gothamschools.org/2012/04/26/live-blogging-the-pep-24-turnaround-closures-on-the-agenda/?ref=bklyner.com) on the agenda at the five-hour meeting.

The schools will reopen under new names in September, flooded with as much as $1.5 million each in federal funds to get the schools back on track.