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Speaker 1: Anavanegas has a son in eighth grade who goes to

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Speaker 1: school in Chelsea. That district just announced that it'll need

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Speaker 1: to cut seventy teachers as families fleeing Ice keep their

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Speaker 1: kids home or leave the country.

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Speaker 2: Please help me keep my family in my community.

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Speaker 1: Hot She was moved to tears trying to describe what

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Speaker 1: those teachers mean to her family in front of a

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Speaker 1: state House crowd. Each school district in Massachusetts gets money

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Speaker 1: per student enrolled, and many immigrant districts are down hundreds

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Speaker 1: of students compared to last year.

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Speaker 3: It's not because they have transitioned it to a better life.

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Speaker 3: They had been forced out of our community.

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Speaker 1: That means millions of dollars in funding lost almost instantly.

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Speaker 1: It's the same story in places like Framingham, Lynn and Brockton, Anna,

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Speaker 1: and many school teachers and admins are pleading with the

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Speaker 1: state legislature to help make up the shortfall, just like

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Speaker 1: they did during the pandemic.

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Speaker 4: We are being punished for something that we have no

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Speaker 4: control over.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffield, the WSY, Boston's news radio