Hechinger Report | NYC’s strategy for shutting schools leaves some students lost in transition

Hechinger Report | NYC’s strategy for shutting schools leaves some students lost in transition

NYC’s strategy for shutting schools leaves some students lost in transition

by Liz Willen

Tilden High School

An eerie silence pervades the cavernous hallways as Samuel J. Tilden High School prepares to graduate its final class. After 80 years, the hulking Brooklyn institution that once graduated a thousand seniors a year will host a scaled down ceremony on Friday, handing out diplomas to about 65 survivors.
Years of plunging graduating rates and increasing violence spelled the end for Tilden, one of five failing New Yo