for Chalkbeat)Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark has struggled with violence, low academic achievement, and declining enrollment for years. Parents and employees have repeatedly pleaded with officials for help.
The calls for help started the first week of classes at Malcolm X Shabazz High School. Week one: The police were called about a fight at the Newark school, police records from this September show.
Week two: an assault in progress. Week three: “criminal mischief.
” Week four: an alleged sexual assault. In October, a melee in the cafeteria sent the school into lockdown, according to students and videos.
In a separate incident, two students punched and kicked a young woman as she cowered in a […].
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