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Obama inauguration is all the buzz at L.A. schools

 
Some lucky students will get to go to Washington for the historic event, which is expected to draw an unprecedented number of young visitors. > When Nasser Baker's mother received a call from his school this month and began jumping and screaming, he thought she had seen a spider. But when he learned that his South Los Angeles charter school had chosen him as one of 12 students headed to Washington, D.C., for the presidential inauguration, 10-year-old Nasser started jumping up and down too. (link)

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