Rundown Schools in Low-Income Communities Face Long-Term Closures Amid COVID
Run-Down Schools in Low-Income Communities Face Long-Term Closures Amid COVID Sign informs parents who picked up items from the neighborhood public school to exit the premisses through the gate, in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2020. Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto via Getty Images By Yvette Alston-Johnson was seething when she got the news. Children in Paterson, New Jersey would not be allowed to go to school in person this fall, while many of their peers in predominantly white and affluent suburbs would return. Alston-Johnson attended Paterson public sc...
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