Newest Important School Resource? A Laundry Room

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Yasmeen Khan
WNYC News | Feb 27, 2020

School staff at P.S. 132 in Manhattan considered acquiring the washer and dryer a mission. Nearly 90 percent of students at the school are low-income; close to a quarter of students are homeless. School aides had been bringing some students' clothes home to wash. 

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