New resources, people lead efforts to end ethnic strife at South Phila. High
Philadelphia schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman made it clear Tuesday that she's pouring people and resources into troubled South Philadelphia High, where 30 Asian students were attacked on Dec. 3.
There's a new after-school arts program, run by Asian Arts Initiative. Classes offering Chinese as a second language. An in-school center for new immigrants. The pending appointment of an Asian assistant principal.
But the superintendent's delivery of expanded programming couldn't steady the nerves of Asian youths who joined dozens of classmates for new-student orientation Tuesday. The session was a chance to hear about rules and policies, but also a lesson in majority-minority dynamics at the school, which is 70 percent
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