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Immigrant Students from Burlington HS to Talk about Inequality at the Vt. Statehouse

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A group of immigrant students from Burlington High School are going to be testifying at the Vermont Statehouse about what they feel is racial inequality at their school.

Some of the same students staged a protest at Burlington High School earlier this month where they said they should not be judged on standardized test scores, which show performance gaps between immigrant students and others.

Superintendent Jeanne Collins says the immigrant students are being judged the same as are children who have attended Burlington schools since kindergarten.

Collins says the district should be judged on the students' improvement, not on the same scale as others. Burlington is Vermont's largest school district. It has about 3,800 students from 32 countries and they speak more than 50 languages.

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