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Revere High student senate urges school committee to reconsider safe-haven resolution, citing immigrant-family concerns
Summary
Student senate leaders read a letter asking the committee to reverse its decision to reject a safe-haven resolution; the letter said nearly half of Revere residents are foreign-born and cited attendance impacts tied to immigration enforcement concerns.
The Revere High School student senate delivered a letter to the school committee on March 18 urging reconsideration of a previously defeated "safe-haven" resolution and expressing concern about the effect of immigration enforcement on student attendance.
"Revere is a resilient immigrant community," the student senate wrote in the letter read aloud at the meeting, and the students said roughly 43.5% of the city's population is foreign-born.…
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