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Speaker 1: Students, teachers, and lawmakers smiling ear to ear with lots

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Speaker 1: of cheers at the ribbon cutting just steps away from

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Speaker 1: the brand new front door of the renovated Patrick J.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy Elementary School.

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Speaker 2: And I do believe that when the government, the village

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Speaker 2: and the people come together to invest in just the building,

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Speaker 2: the kids feel that they are being invested in themselves.

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Speaker 1: Standing in East Boston, State Senator Lydia Edwards says this

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Speaker 1: is a historic investment, so the kids that go here

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Speaker 1: won't have to deal with problems of the past. Mayor

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Speaker 1: Wu says BPS should be the first choice for families

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Speaker 1: and that we need to put the effort in to

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Speaker 1: make that true.

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Speaker 3: Every space inside, in between, outside classrooms, they are all

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Speaker 3: tailored to meet all of our students' needs. In the

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Speaker 3: hallways and with signage, water fountains and bathrooms, playground and

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Speaker 3: sports courts.

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Speaker 1: Now kids will walk in the door to a brand

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Speaker 1: new two story, thirty nine hundred square foot entrance, topped

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Speaker 1: with all the updates and East Boston, I'm a freedman.

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