The School

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🗓️ 11 June 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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It's happening all across the country, for complicated reasons: Schools are closing. And this is disproportionately affecting poor, black students. Shereen Marisol Meraji and Chris Benderev go to Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania to ask kids, parents, and teachers what it's like when the neighborhood school that's been there for more than a century is about to shut down. Follow Kelly McEvers @KellyMcEvers, Shereen Marisol Meraji @RadioMirage, and Chris Benderev @cbndrv. Email us at Embedded@npr.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from the
0:05.5	news and we go deep.
0:07.5	And today we are talking about this story.
0:10.1	The city of Detroit today announced plans to close 44 schools including historic number
0:14.5	of school closings in Chicago this week.
0:16.9	Philadelphia is closing 23 schools in Washington DC 15.
0:21.7	Tonight the Hickley Mill School District is still.
0:23.3	The water school district.
0:24.3	Well last, the county's federal county is hosting a-
0:26.5	people have lost their optimism and now they're losing their high school.
0:30.0	The new school the kids would go to will likely get shut down soon as well.
0:35.8	Schools across the country are closing.
0:38.8	Namely traditional public schools, you know, at least you walk to or took the bus to
0:43.2	every day when you were a kid.
0:45.7	And the reasons why are complicated.
0:48.4	First people are on the move.
0:50.4	The economy's changing.
0:51.9	So when people leave a town or a neighborhood and there aren't enough kids in the school,
0:56.0	it's hard to keep the school open.
0:58.4	But there's another big reason.
1:00.3	When no child left behind was passed in the early 2000s, it embraced this idea of school
1:05.4	choice.
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