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December 12, 2011

Inequities among Boston’s schools

Gaps in facilities, test scores, safety complicate the process

By James Vaznis

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 12, 2011

The uneven distribution of great facilities and programs underpins Boston’s elaborate school-lottery system, and is also the reason the process is so harrowing.

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