Parents from Schools Targeted for Closure Protest Together at DOE HQ
Middle and high schools targeted for closure serve almost entirely low-income Black and Latino families and have lost tens-of-millions to budget cuts over past 3 years. Many schools represented were founded, moved or co-located by Bloomberg Administration; most house large numbers of high-needs students.
Susan Hackshaw, parent from PS 631
For months, hundreds of mostly low-income, Black and Latino parents and students from across the City have separately held rallies outside of their beloved middle and high schools in an effort to stop the Bloomberg Administration’s march to close them. They have argued that their schools are struggling because of factors