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A new lawsuit filed by a coalition of students and community organizations argues that the Mass. education system amounts to state-maintained segregation. The suit has opened conversations about what, if anything, works to desegregate and improve access to quality education. https://buff.ly/fE9heBS

Dan O’Brien, professor of public policy and urban affairs and director of the Boston Area Research Initiative at Northeastern University, joins Jennifer Smith on this week’s Codcast to discuss what lessons we can take from Boston’s long record of trying to address school segregation.

New in OPINION: Ending the requirement that legal ads be published by news outlets would harm democracy and journalism

Ending the requirement that legal ads be published by news outlets would harm democracy and journalism Legal ads are one leg of a three-legged stool -- along with public-records laws and open meetings -- ensuring government transparency.