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A school closure cliff is coming. Black and Hispanic students are likely to bear the brunt

The Hechinger Report

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — The school year ended at Washington Elementary at 2:35 p.m. on a hot Tuesday afternoon in May, but one hour later, 9-year-old Malaysia Robertson lingered outside. This story also appeared in The Washington Post She had spent most of her life at this small public school in the New Orleans suburb where she lives with her grandmother, but when she returned to school this month, it had closed.