NYC Approves $1 Million for Eighth-Graders' 9/11 Memorial Visits
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 3
NYC Approves $1 Million for Eighth-Graders' 9/11 Memorial Visits
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 3
Summary
$1 million in city funding was approved to send New York City eighth-graders to the 9/11 memorial.
City lawmakers said the trips are meant to ensure students learn the scale and impact of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
About one-third of Americans are now too young to remember 9/11 or to have lived through it, underscoring the push for in-person memorial education.
The effort reflects concern that younger students know the attacks mostly through history lessons rather than direct memory of Lower Manhattan's destruction and disruption.