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The city is making a big change to a controversial Arabic-themed school in Brooklyn.
The Department of Education says it is changing the Khalil Gibran Academy in Brooklyn from a middle school to a high school.
Under its proposal, the school would stop enrolling sixth grade students at the end of this school year, until it phases out the last class of eighth-grade students in 2013.
According to the DOE, the decision was made based on the fact that the school had difficulty recruiting and maintaining middle school students.