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  "id": "2005-novemberdecember-destination-failing-schools",
  "slug": "2005-novemberdecember-destination-failing-schools",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2005-novemberdecember-destination-failing-schools.html",
  "year": 2005,
  "month": "November/December",
  "monthNum": 11,
  "headline": "Destination: Failing schools",
  "kicker": "TROUBLE IN SCHOOLS",
  "author_name": "John Keefe",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "WNYC-New York Public Radio",
  "summary": "WNYC's analysis of enrollment data found that special education students in New York City are disproportionately concentrated in the city's worst-performing high schools.",
  "keywords": [
    "Special Education",
    "Enrollment Data",
    "Failing Schools"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Education",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "spreadsheet"
  ],
  "full_text": "For years, there had been rumblings that kids with special needs were being \"dumped\" into New York City's worst high schools. Reporter Beth Fertig decided to see whether enrollment numbers confirmed what the parents of these children had long suspected. While our analysis could not detect evidence of intentional dumping, it did show that special education students and English language learners were disproportionately overrepresented in the city's failing and most violent public high schools. At the same time, those kids – as a group – were losing out on the new, small schools created to improve education. Fertig started by filing a request under New York's freedom of information law for enrollment data about each of the city's 337 public high schools. After we compiled the data, we created a column to calculate the percent of special needs students in each school and then sorted the data by that percentage in descending order. At a glance it was easy to see the list.",
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    "extracted_at": "",
    "verified": true
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