On an island that is reeling, the stakes for schools are high. Gov. Ricardo Roselló has announced that he aims to shutter more than 300 schools amid expectations that enrollment will plunge 10 percent in the coming school year.
As African-American families leave Chicago, the percentage of poor black students in the suburbs has grown dramatically, straining already cash-strapped school districts.
The organizers never made overt racial arguments, but they were reacting to a system set up by a 1971 desegregation order to create more racial balance.
If you say you’re on the freedom side, then that means you will join us in asking the rich to pay their fair share; calling on the city and state to stop the attacks on public and higher education; in asking the banks to end their predatory deals that strip vital dollars from our schools; in fighting for stronger neighborhoods and job creation, and access to health care and not just health insurance.
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Metal detectors, police officers, handcuffs: is this an episode of Orange is the New Black, or an average day at a New York City public high school? Every year, New York students are pushed out of classrooms and into the criminal justice system via the School to Prison Pipeline. Learn about how the School to Prison Pipeline works, its destructive consequences for students, and how educators and communities can work together to fix it in the NYCLU's latest episode of Project Liberty.
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Of the 14 students who were ultimately expelled, 12 were Black even though only 40 percent of the district’s students are Black.
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