With enrollment dropping and fewer than half of its students graduating on time, Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn reflects a tough question confronting the city's education officials: What to do about persistently failing schools.....

.......The Bloomberg administration shut many failing schools, including dozens of large high schools. Mr. Bloomberg opened hundreds of small ones in their place, arguing that fresh energy, new leadership and more student choices would bring better results.

Some studies suggest the changes brought progress: A 2013 report by MDRC, a nonprofit research group, found the new small high schools fostered more personal cultures and graduation rates 10% better than other public city high schools for comparable students......

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