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SRC votes to close Germantown High, Fulton and Kinsey elementaries; spares Roosevelt | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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SRC votes to close Germantown High, Fulton and Kinsey elementaries; spares Roosevelt

by Aaron Moselle
Vera Primus' eyes said it all. Her words added an exclamation point.
"I'm just floored," said a teary Primus, Germantown High School's alumni association president on Thursday night after learning that her alma mater would close at school-year's end. "They don't care nothing about these kids."
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A rally for neighborhood schools took place outside the Atrium on Thursday before a School Reform Commission vote on whether to close 29 neighborhood schools.
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Kimberly Paynter/WHYY
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Notes from the news, March 8