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A student’s MTA protest yields to broader education critique | GothamSchools

A student’s MTA protest yields to broader education critique | GothamSchools

A student’s MTA protest yields to broader education critique

Jaritza Geigel, a student organizer with Make the Road New York and the Urban Youth Collaborative, led a walkout to protest cuts to student subway access.

As part of a blog post about the walkout for EdVox, Jaritza also added this overall sense of the state of education in the city:

We are done having Mayor Bloomberg close down schools, which only increase over-crowding; we are done having funds removed overnight from our schools; we are done seeing valuable teachers