{"id":7011,"date":"2015-05-23T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:56:12","slug":"newark-students-may-22-walkout-and-protest-over-2000-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/newark-students-may-22-walkout-and-protest-over-2000-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Newark Students’ May 22 walkout and protest over 2000 strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Newark<\/a>On May 22 2015, over 2000 students and supporters shut downtown Newark NJ down for several hours to create visibility and bring awareness to the horrors Newark students have experienced at the hands of Chris Christie, Cory Booker and Cami Anderson, who jointly created a plan to break the back of public education in this city.<\/p>\n

Anderson’s “One Newark” plan has young children from a single family barred from attending the school local to their home and instead, being sent far outside their neighborhood to 4 different schools in different corners of the city. Each child must take 2-3 bus rides and spend an hour of commuting time each way to reach school. Throughout the city, public school students are denied books and sanitary food; the principals and administrative staff of the city’s most successful schools are fired; and police charges were filed against a PTA president for hanging flyers announcing the PTA’s next meeting.<\/p>\n

As the walkout and protest clearly show, a growing number of students and their supporters are completely fed up. In the words of my esteemed friend and public education advocate Johnnie Lattner<\/a>, “Enough is enough.”<\/p>\n

Here’s some news coverage of yesterday’s walkout, many links courtesy of Bashir Akinyele<\/a>, host of All Politics Are Local<\/a>, America\u2019s #1 political Hip Hop radio show<\/p>\n