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Closing down schools has become the norm in some of the biggest cities in the United States. And many groups indicate that this could disproportionately impact minority students a new report shows just how many are being closed down devastating an entire community. I respond aya loves raising her teenage daughter in this quiet New York City neighborhood.
And was happy sending her to school here just around the corner from home. But now school is officially out for public school 19 like the over 140 schools that closed in New York City since 2018. The Department of Education says students here were underperforming with no signs of improvement public school 19 is phasing out to make way for a new school with a stronger program. That will invite kids from across the city students like irises daughter were invited to sign up. But she says they were not encouraged hola Que Esta hora esta recibiendo alguno de Toda la Sparta.The new school is getting kids from all around New York five or six school buses right to the school.
Why didn't they help the old school why didn't the school get the same help. The new school is having por casa espero que la escuela tuviera a no momento tan dificil para entonces cerrar la se porque no se le dio la misma ayuda que se le salon de la nueva escuela a new SS quhele closing underperforming schools to make way for stronger programs was a plan by New York's former Mayor Michael Bloomberg to boost graduation rates the plan worked for many but parent activists say it didn't work for all and that many minority students are falling through the cracks the common denominator the common factors that have happened in communities of color. And what is high poverty happening you know we're close one would push those kids and others only twelve percent of black-Latino children were graduating high school college and career-ready in a recent report.
The journey for justice found cities like New York Detroit and Chicago with large minority populations have recently pulled the plug on more than a hundred public schools public advocate Pedro Nogueira says it's a national challenge and blames officials across America for giving schools of failing mark instead of helping them to succeed.It's ironic because we want to judge kids based on performance but we don't judge the states based on what they do to support the education of children in many cities what they've done is they've gone after the communities they thought were most vulnerable because it would be easier to get away with closing schools there the current mayor of New York may have been listening there's currently a temporary ban on closing schools in New York City but advocates tell me they'll continue to speak out to show that wiping the slate clean by closing a school could have a ripple effect that can't be seen in statistics Patrice Howard New York
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