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Hofstra brings issues of today to Long Beach High School
Photo credit: Brittany Wait
Ashley Martin was one of the first students to weigh in on a forum on immigration and debt at Long Beach High School on Thursday.
Martin and 11 other students were in one classroom participating in Hofstra University’s Deliberative Democracy Project, which has been holding community forums across Long Island in high schools, middle schools and at the university to engage citizens in discussions...