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Crosby High junior Tavares Anderson reads winning MLK essay at Waterbury Board meeting

Waterbury Board of Education · March 20, 2026
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Crosby High School junior Tavares Anderson read his winning Martin Luther King Jr. essay to the Waterbury Board of Education, and the superintendent used the meeting to highlight student awards and district program achievements including Lego League and HOSA successes.

Tavares Anderson, a Crosby High School junior and one of 15 statewide winners in U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy’s Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest, read his winning essay to the Waterbury Board of Education on the Waterbury Arts Magnet School stage.

Anderson invoked Dr. King’s message and tied it to local concerns, saying, “The dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lives on,” and citing district context in his remarks:…

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