On a Thursday afternoon in early December, students at a public high school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan took over the principal’s office, stripping the walls, taping around the doors, and dragging in a paint-spattered boombox.
Then they started painting. Fortunately, Madeline Ciliotta-Young, principal of the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers, had already chosen the color, Sapphire Berry. More to the point, the students—who belong to the school’s Paint Club—knew what they were doing, thanks to a New York–based nonprofit called Publicolor.
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