Members of the Boston community are voicing their concerns and pushing back against the district's proposed plan to close three of the city's schools.
More than 100 outraged parents, staff and students spoke during a school committee meeting Wednesday, expressing their hopes that the schools would stay open -- The Community Academy of Science and Health, Another Course to College and the Lee Academy Pilot School. About 2,300 students altogether would be impacted if they do close.
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Many parents say the closures would specifically hurt special education students and communities of color.
"You cannot just close a school and say it will work itself out. It will not," one man said at the meeting. "Kids need more answers

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