‘CRISIS’ FOR LATINO AND BLACK KIDS – New York City
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The city’s efforts to reform its middle schools and close the racial achievement gap haven’t made the grade: Black and Latino eighth-graders still lag far behind their white classmates, according to a critical new report.
A coalition of parents and community groups behind the report is calling on education officials to take urgent measures to address what they call a “middle-school crisis.”
At a rally today, sched uled to coincide with the report’s release on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the group, NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, is set to propose three immediate remedies for the city’s 200 lowest-performing middle schools. “*
*From: www.nypost.com
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