When the school board’s Committee on Coordination and Administration voted last month to set up a committee to study the feasibility of student representation, it was a victory of sorts for members of Young Organizers United (YOU), part of the Granite State Organizing Project.

YOU members have attended school board meetings regularly for several years, pleading for a spot at the table during the “public forum” portion of each session.

So when school board vice chair Art Beaudry of Ward 9 read off his list of 13 names to serve on the committee, many in the room were surprised not a single YOU member made the final roster.

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