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The Students Klein is Leaving Behind « EdVox

The Students Klein is Leaving Behind « EdVox

The Students Klein is Leaving Behind

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

2-out-of-3 Black and Latino students not on track for college after huge drop in state scores and DOE has offered no comprehensive plan for improving student performance

A day after hearing that Chancellor Joel Klein was resigning, struggling students led a rally with parents and advocates on Wednesday, November 10th at Department of Education headquarters in Manhattan to demand that the Chancellor and his staff create a comprehensive plan to get more than 239,000 New York City schoolchildren back on track for high school graduation and college. Calling themselves the “Students Klein Left Behind”, dozens of students testing below