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Although many high schools denied her entrance because she was truant, in 1997 Murray enrolled at the Humanities Preparatory School, a new progressive public school in downtown Manhattan...
...Murray and her older sister grew up in a dingy apartment with their parents—both drug addicts—and attended various public schools through eighth grade...
Raised in a family marked by generations of violence and instability, Murray remembers her mother pawning the family’s possessions for drugs, then shooting up in the living room with her father...
...Murray did well in school but was arrested for truancy several times before the AIDS-related death of her mother in 1996 inspired her to take her education more seriously...
...been through the mainstream school system, schools where you fall through the cracks,” Murray says. “I had just lost faith in the school system...