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Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, which operated from 1947 until 1987. The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000.
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The first state-funded school was the New York Asylum for Idiots. It was established in Albany in 1851. This state school aimed to educate children with intellectual disabilities and was reportedly successful in doing so. The school's Board of Trustees declared, in 1853, that the experiment had "entirely and fully succeeded."
Bronston, who was frustrated by the team's limited resources and impact, left in 1970 to become a staff physician at Willowbrook State School, a state facility housing 5,000 mentally disabled adults and children. [25] Bronston also organized a commune in a Victorian Staten Island home and moved in with Michael Wilkins and other friends. [26]
Winter Storm Kingston swept across the U.S. from the Midwest into the South and mid-Atlantic, bringing snow, ice and dangerous road conditions to cities including Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kansas City and ...
Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois; Willowbrook Museum Village, a museum in Newfield, Maine; Willowbrook State School, a former state-supported institution for developmentally disabled children in Staten Island, New York