Fear of violence amid Philly school closings has roots in the ’70s
Some residents fear a plan to to close 37 Philadelphia schools could spark violence against rival neighborhoods suddenly thrust together in a common school building. It won’t be the district’s first attempt to pair Germantown and Martin Luther King high school students.
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