The Post reports from Mayor Adrian Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s press conference earlier this morning that six of 23 D.C. public schools on the original closure list will remain open, while four others have now been added to the proposal list. The changes brings the total of planned school closures to 21.

Bruce-Monroe, Burroughs, Green and Smothers elementary schools, as well as Brown Middle School and Shaw Junior High School, will remain open. The following school closures are now considered final: Gage-Eckington Elementary, Meyer Elementary, Stevens Elementary, Clark Elementary, Rudolph Elementary, Bertie Backus Middle, Bunker Hill Elementary, J.F. Cook Elementary, Slowe Elementary, M.M. Washington Career High School, Young Elementary, Bowen Elementary, Gibbs Elementary, Hine Middle, Douglass Transition Academy/Choice Academy, Patricia R. Harris Educational Center and Wilkinson Elementary.

The four schools that have been added to the list are Benning Elementary, Merritt Middle School, Garnett-Patterson Middle and Park View Elementary. Benning and Merritt would close at the end of this year, while Garnett-Patterson and Park View would not close until after 2011. Fenty and Rhee said they will hold a new round of public hearings on these four schools.