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A group of rural educators and elected officials from around Massachusetts are sending a week-long SOS to Beacon Hill lawmakers, letting them know, not for the first time, the destructive consequences of underfunding the state's rural schools.
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We take a tour of the Jones Library as they near the light at the end of the tunnel for their renovation project and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.
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In for Carrie Saldo, NEPM's Jill Kaufman and panelists discuss Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development Eric Paley's visit to Franklin County, Amherst's new resolution to hold ICE agents accountable when they violate state laws, and more.
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