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