The Bronx’s Herbert H. Lehman High School, which has struggled to stave off closure from the Department of Education for the past two years, has been removed from the phase-out list. The high school’s principal, Rose Lo Bianco, said she was informed by Chancellor Dennis Walcott, who gave the principal the good news personally.

Using the public address system, Lo Bianco told the school: “the news from Chancellor Walcott is a certification that all of our hard work and collective efforts have been recognized by the Department of Education. We can now move forward as we continue to improve in our ability to educate the young men and women of Herbert H. Lehman High School.”

DeWitt Clinton, another of the Bronx’s last large high schools, is not facing the prospect of being phased out, at least not yet. But the DOE wants to co-locate two small schools in Clinton’s building, which the school community believes will lead to it eventually being phased out as it has with other large high schools such as John F. Kennedy, Walton and Evander Childs. The Panel for Education Policy will vote on the co-location plan on Monday night in Brooklyn.

Editor’s note: The Panel for Education will meet on Monday, March 11, at 6 p.m. at Brooklyn Technical High School 29 Fort Greene Pl. to discuss and vote on the plan to co-locate two new schools within the same building as DeWitt Clinton High School. For more information, call (212) 374-5159.