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Post: Hunger strikers travel to D.C. to ask education chief Arne Duncan for help

Photo credit: U.S. Department of Education

by Lyndsey Layton

On day 17 without food, two of the dozen Chicago activists on a hunger strike over a city high school traveled to Washington to ask Education Secretary Arne Duncan for help.

Read the rest of the story at The Washington Post.

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