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Community and School Challenges
School Facilities
Teacher and Instructional Concerns
Student Concerns
Chapter Themes and Historical Developments
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This school was built for 1,800 kids, but the school held more than 3,400. More than 95 % were black or Hispanic and 1.5% was white. This high school faced a phase-out in 2005 because of overcrowding and criminal activity. The school graduated its final class in June 2005.
What is Walton High School in the Bronx, NY?
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One middle school in East Harlem, which was housed on the top floor of an old five-story building, couldn’t even afford to provide the students in 3 of its classes with these.
What are textbooks?
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In public schools in cities like New York students with savvy parents-well educated, have these in place.
What are admission policies?
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NEW YORK MANDATED TWO YEARS OF “THIS” AS THE ONLY STATE REQUIREMENT TO TAKE EFFECT IN JUNIOR HIGH OR MIDDLE SCHOOLS. All STUDENTS MUST TAKE THREE-QUARTERS OF A YEAR OF STUDY IN THIS SUBJECT AREA.
What is “HOME AND CAREERS?”
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This motivates savvy parents to manipulate the placement system
What is educational supply and demand?
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Roosevelt High School spends $12,800 per pupil while this adjacent school district spent $19,000 per school district.
What is Great Neck, NY?
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The principal at one elementary school in the Roosevelt School District in New York said that 30 years ago these had been removed from classrooms and had unresolved asbestos problems.
What are doors?
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Parents do this to get their kids into to top rated schools when competition is fierce.
What is choosing a famous person to put a good word in for you?
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UNDER HOME & CAREERS, THESE LESSONS WERE TAUGHT AS A MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD TRAINING AND VOCATIONAL CAREER BUILDING DUE TO THE STUDENTS’ WEAKNESSES IN ACADEMICS.
What ARE HAND-SEWING SKILLS AND PROFESSSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING?
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These types of parents keep their children out of inner city schools.
What are young middle-class white families?
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The parents of the surrounding communities to Roosevelt High School responded this way when faced with a proposal to integrate their schools.
What are flyers and bumper stickers that said if the integration or closing of Roosevelt goes through, “we will have no choice except to remove our children from East Meadow schools and move away. But who will buy our homes? People with a lot less money, for much lower prices. Our property values will drop dramatically.”
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In the 1990s, when a billion dollar cut in funding was imposed in New York City’s schools, this school managed to build a $150 million school – the most expensive school ever built in New York City
What is Stuyvesant High School?
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New York is a tale of two cities wrote David Dinkins, who would later be elected Mayor of New York City wrote these words in 1986 when he was Manhattan borough president “ it should come as no surprise that each of these cities has its own school system." Those who defend the bifurcated system said this.
What is “Don’t change our schools, make the others better?”
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THIS IS THE NEW YORK STATE DIPLOMA GIVEN TO GRADUATING TWELTH GRADERS TO WHOM MET THE STATE STANDARDS FOR GRADUATION.
What are THE “REGENTS IN NEW YORK?”
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Free market competition applied to public education is called this.
What is merit based student placement?
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This segregated suburb of New York with 3,000 students is 85% Black and 15% Hispanic and covers one and a half square miles. It is not a village or a town. It has no government, no mayor, and no police. It exists exclusively as a school district.
What is the Roosevelt School District?
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The facilities in some schools are so poor, that some schools are so poor that waiting times just to get their school served lunch can reach this level.
What is 30 minutes?
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When the Roosevelt School did not close, the state imposed this type of curriculum consisting of elements of order and control in order to reverse the low achievement levels attained by the school.
What is a managerial curriculum?
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PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS HAVE TO TAKE “THIS” EXAM IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR ADMISSION TO HUNTER COLLEGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK.
What is THE I.Q. TEST?
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These kinds of parents manipulate the system to place their children in the best schools.
Who are savvy parents?
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When the then NYS Commissioner of Education offered a proposal to close Roosevelt Schools, the surrounding communities responded with sheer terror. The surrounding communities responded with these fliers and arguments.
What is “Keep Roosevelt Students out of East Meadow,” further, the flyer said “Roosevelt Schools are failing badly because of rapid violence, drug sales, and other problems such as widespread pregnancies?”
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One school in the Roosevelt School District in New York had one of its two sections shut down for this reason.
What are structural problems, to include the roof is in danger of collapsing?
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In Nassau County on Long Island in 2001-2002, Roosevelt School District was spending about $12,800 for each student. A predominantly white community of Great Neck spent $19,000. While this prosperous town spent $20,000 on each student.
What is the town of Mineola, NY?
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SEVENTY PERCENT OF “THESE” TYPES OF STUDENTS POPULATED THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, WHICH WAS KNOWN AS THE DUMPING GROUND FOR “LAST CHANCE CHILDREN.”
WHO ARE THE “LEVEL ONE” STUDENTS?
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Public school separation based on race or class is called this.
What is educational apartheid?