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Philly kids, teachers march for schools, racial justice: ‘Normal is not OK’
Kristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Participants listen to speakers during a rally at School District headquarters on North Broad St Sunday.
Christina Ly was a sophomore in high school when a ceiling in her high school collapsed, raining pieces of plaster and streams of water into hallways at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia.
Palumbo educators had warned officials of problems at the school, but their warnings went unheeded. In addition to environmental problems, Palumbo, like all 220 schools in the Philadelphia School District, doesn’t have enough staff, enough supplies, enough money, Ly said. ....

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