Time after time, parents step up to make cookies for the bake sale, coach sports programs after school, weed and maintain the school grounds, put up bulletin boards, work the book fair and more.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have warned that schools would have to freeze hiring and cut after-school activities and other programs to make up for the midyear funding cut.

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Three schools that make up the Believe High School Network are slated to close in June after the state Education Department said on Tuesday it plans to revoke the charters of the two schools it oversees.

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