The new secession
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | Something unusual is happening in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
| 0:27.9 | In the southeastern corner in this unincorporated area, |
| 0:30.9 | a group of parents and advocates is seeking to essentially create their own city. |
| 0:36.7 | Adam Harris writes about education for the Atlantic. |
| 0:39.6 | The grows out of this movement of trying to create school districts in order |
| 0:44.0 | to have these separate schools. |
| 0:45.9 | This is a process that began in around 2012. |
| 0:49.4 | It is continuing on to today where in October, |
| 0:52.9 | they'll be voting on essentially whether or not they'll be able to create their own city. |
| 0:57.3 | A movement began to form a new city in the unincorporated southern area of East Baton Rouge Parish. |
| 1:03.9 | This area is known as St. George. |
| 1:07.0 | These parents and advocates were kind of fed up in a way with the local schools. |
| 1:11.8 | The schools in East Baton Rouge Parish had been rated consistently as the lowest performing in the state |
| 1:16.6 | and there was violence in the schools and all these different things that amount to this coded language. |
| 1:21.5 | The citizens of the proposed city of St. George were hopeful |
| 1:25.2 | their legitimate concerns about education and the direction of the parish would be heard |
| 1:30.4 | and that things would improve. |
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