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Michelle Wu: “We have invested in creating the specific types of seats…”

Featuring: Michelle Wu, Democrat | Mayor of Boston | Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 08:54

And you don't have to go back too many decades to see the depth of segregation of inequalities within resource allocation, within the choices that families were being given in terms of high quality options. And so We have invested in creating the specific types of seats that meet our students needs. And then when seats aren't meeting our students needs because the schools are severely under enrolled or they're too small and therefore not able to offer a full range of AP classes and extracurriculars, we have to make some hard choices about how to right. (08:54–09:01)

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Asserts investments have been made to create specific types of seats to meet student needs.

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