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Newark students protest unsafe school environment � Failing Schools

Newark students protest unsafe school environment � Failing Schools

Newark students protest unsafe school environment

OCTOBER 8, 2010
by Sabrina

Yesterday, while well-heeled so-called school leaders published a…manifesto (don’t worry, I’ll get into it today ;) ), and some of us closer to home debated the wisdom of spending millions of dollars on new teacher evaluation systems, students at Barringer High School in Newark, NJ walked out to protest the unsafe, unsanitary, and unstructured conditions in which they’d been forced to go to school. Kudos to them for standing up for themselves– here’s hoping more of us