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Newark Gave 16-and 17-year-olds The Right To Vote Two Years Ago. They Are Still Learning Their Power.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Jessie Gómez, Chalkbeat Newark Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox. Judah Ancion, a 16-year-old junior at Essex County’s Donald M. Payne School of Technology, found […]

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