A small girls’ yeshiva in Brooklyn is among 198 public and private secondary schools honored this year by the U.S. Department of Education. But teachers, students and administrator at the school, the one Jewish school honored this year, will be unable to attend the awards ceremony because it falls on Shabbat. The 91-student Mercaz Bnos is one of 11 Jewish day schools named Blue Ribbon Schools since the Education Department started the program in 1982.
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