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K-12 students protest outrageous fare hike
By
LeiLani Dowell
Published Dec 23, 2009 4:02 PM
Chanting “MTA, we won’t pay!” hundreds of youth
protested on Dec. 21 at the Metropolitan Transit Authority headquarters in New
York City. Signs at this Day of Outrage protest read, “Save the Students,
not the Bankers.”
The MTA has suggested balancing their budget problems on the backs of K-12
students by discontinuing a program that provides free MetroCards for more than
500,000 city students to ride the subways and buses to school.
Unlike students in many school districts throughout the country, who ride
school buses, students in New York rely on public transportation to get to and
from school. At current rates, parents would be forced to pay upward of $1,000
per child per year for a monthly MetroCard.
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