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Fatuma Muhina experienced one of Pittsburgh Public Schools’ most drastic facility changes as a student in 2008. Schenley High School was abruptly closed, and Muhina, then still adjusting to life in the United States as a refugee from Somalia, via Kenya, had her life turned upside down ([link removed]) .
Now a parent of nine children, she fears similar disruption for her Somali Bantu community amid the district’s ongoing facility consolidation process ([link removed]) . The proposal, alongside other changes, would close the North Side’s King PreK-8, where many of the community’s children attend.
“I feel like parents’ choices are being taken away,” Muhina told Public Source education reporter Lajja Mistry.
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