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Ayanna Pressley: “In my district, the Massachusetts Seventh alone, black girls are six times more likely to be suspended from school...”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
In my district, the Massachusetts Seventh alone, black girls are six times more likely to be suspended from school...
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing racial disparities in school discipline and the negative impact of facial recognition technology.

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