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April 04, 2012

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Kindergarten applications are up more than 25 percent in Boston.
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Jillian Henrici, a teacher at Mario Umana Academy in East Boston, reviewed math work by Franklin Garcia.
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Some 344 would-be kindergartners have been left without an assigned school for the fall, 128 more than last year.
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