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Can Gentrification Improve Education For Low-Income Minority Students?, Edir Coronado
Can Gentrification Improve Education For Low-Income Minority Students?, Edir Coronado
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Gentrification is the process of investment into disinvested neighborhoods. The development of gentrification brings a reduction in crime, new job opportunities, and better government services, but these new neighborhood amenities are not available to all residents within the gentrified location. Newark, NJ one of the poorest municipalities in the northeast has long been one of the faces for urban blight and is one of the most troubled cities in the state of New Jersey in terms of crime, poverty, and academic performance.
Out of gentrification expensive chain stores, high priced rental units, and charter schools are born. Structurally the neighborhood …