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Students at Detroit’s Western High School walk out over planned school closings and cuts in education funding, chanting “They sat cut back! We say fight back!”

By Mark | April 29, 2012

Increasing, we’re seeing students in Detroit step-up and fight for the educations that they’re entitled to as American citizens. Every few weeks, it seems, there’s a different battle being waged. If it’s not kids being arrested for protesting the closing of their schools, it’s kids being suspended for having the audacity to demand that they […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged Catherine Ferguson Academy, Clark Park, demands, Detroit Public Schools, Freddie Burse, Frederick Douglass Academy, free school, Maybury Elementary, Occupy Ypsilanti, poetry, Roy Roberts, school closings, social justice, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Freedom School, Southwestern High School, Steve Wasko, students, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution | 16 Comments

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