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On Thursday, 826 Boston held its eighth Half Half Half Half Half Marathon in Jamaica Plain, a fund-raiser to aid their mission to offer free writing, tutoring, and publishing programs to K-12 students.
The assumption is that low-income families will start to participate if the system is structured better, becomes more transparent, or provides some incentives. But any school choice system will be stymied by poverty.