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More photos >>Waving signs that read “Support our kids” and “True reform requires investment,” scores of parents and teachers rallied outside City Hall to protest the mayor’s closing schools policy on April 26, hours before the city’s Panel for Educational Policy voted to shutter 24 struggling schools, remove up to half their staffs and reopen them in the fall under new names.
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When Ruiying Liu, who was born in southern China, needs to speak to a student or parent in Cantonese or Mandarin, no one bats an eye. But when she talks away to an Hispanic student or parent in perfect Spanish, jaws drop. “They are always so surprised and ask where I learned to speak Spanish so fluently,” said Liu, in her second year at IS 220 in Brooklyn.
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As my 3rd-graders prepare to take the state tests, I imagine they’re thinking something like this: I used to love school. I used to skip there every morning after breakfast. I used to run as fast as I could to get to my classroom (except when an adult was in the hall — then I walked as fast as I could).
