NAACP urges parents to pull kids from Minneapolis public schools

Organization says school closings have affected black children disproportionately
Oct. 14, 2010

From The Minneapolis Star Tribune: The Minneapolis branch of the NAACP is urging parents to consider pulling their children out of the Minneapolis School District in response to Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson's recommendation to close North High School. Citing a number of school closures on the city's North Side and low test scores in those that remain, local NAACP President Booker Hodges is accusing Johnson and school board members of failing to educate north Minneapolis' children, most of whom are black.

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