After a three-year lobbying effort, the City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday calling for school to be closed on the two holiest Muslim holidays.

But Mayor Bloomberg said he would not make the change called for in the resolution, which is nonbinding.

“One of the problems you have with a diverse city,” he said, “is that if you close the schools for every single holiday, there won’t be any school.”

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