Project Description
Mass school closures have become a popular, “quick fix” for policymakers trying to address struggling schools and budget crises – despite the lack of evidence that closures save money or even improve opportunities for students. Instead, school closures are both a symptom and a cause of perpetuated inequality, and they leave
Want to take action? Here’s what to do:
- Read up on the alternatives. You can’t improve schools by closing them – here is what we should be doing instead to support and turn around struggling schools.
- Find out if there’s a local organizing group in your community fighting school closures. Contact the Journey for Justice coalition and Alliance for Educational Justice.
- Share this infographic on Facebook and Twitter. And view and share our previous infographics, “Debunking the Myths of School Closures”” and ““The Color of School Closures.”