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For weeks now, incensed parents, students and teachers say they’ve been defending Long Beach Poly High School against a quiet effort by district administrators to dismantle a program that exemplifies what the world-renowned campus is all about. More than a half-dozen dozen teachers or administrators said they have first-hand knowledge of district leaders saying the Long Beach Unified School District intended to strip Poly's Center for International Curriculum (CIC) of its magnet status, a move that would effectively undercut its academically rigorous reputation and squelch the program’s power to draw in students from across the city.