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To honor Dr. King, fully fund Pa. schools, officials say Kristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer © MONICA HERNDON/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS State Sen. Vincent Hughes and others gathered outside Martin Luther King High School in West Oak Lane on Monday to call for increased education funding. Fifty-three years and a day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a group of area educators, students, and politicians gathered in front of the East Germantown high school named for him and demanded better for Pennsylvania’s students. Nasharie Stewart, a student at Penn Wood High School in Delaware County, has learned in overcrowded classrooms, from old textbooks with pages missing. One day, she was sitting in a class when a water pipe burst above her head. She was shocked when she visited another school in a wealthier district and saw young people learning in brand-new buildings, with small classes and ample materials.

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