DOE officials have announced the phase-out of Brandeis High School, one of the last remaining "comprehensive" -- ie, large and struggling -- high schools on the Upper West Side. Current students will be permitted to remain in school; Brandeis will graduate its last class in 2012. (It's not yet clear if students will be able to transfer to other high schools, as is permitted when schools are closed by No Child Left Behind regulations.)

Three new schools will open in the Brandeis High School building this fall: Two high schools, the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers (a career and technical education school) and the Global Learning Collaborative will each open with a 9th grade class and gain a grade a year. Innovation Diploma Plus, a transfer school for older students, will enroll students considered overage and undercredited - those who are at least two years behind in earning credits toward graduation.

The new schools will have information available at the New High School Fair this weekend at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn; it's hoped that DOE will be able to provide additional details on these schools and the others that are new to the system before the fair begins.

Update: Detailed coverage of the Brandeis phase-out is here, here, andhere. Once again, parents, school leaders, and community representatives were not consulted prior to DOE's decision to close the school.