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Closures of Black K-12 schools across the nation threaten neighborhood stability

  • Written by Jerome Morris, Professor of Urban Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
imageA June 2021 protest to keep Dunbar Elementary School in St. Louis from becoming a virtual-only school.Tenille Rose Martin, CC BY-NC-ND

Residents of the St. Louis neighborhood known as The Ville have been fighting for years to stop the closing of Charles H. Sumner High School, the oldest historically Black high school west of the Mississippi River.

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