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Natalie J.J. Smith, a staff member at Eviction Free Zone (EFZ), a Cambridge community organization that seeks to defend the rights of the city's tenant and immigrant populations said as a matter of principle immigrant parents should have the right to vote in the School Committee elections...
...current situation is especially detrimental because a large number of children in Cambridge schools are the children of immigrants, Smith said. According to EFZ materials, there are currently 2,925 children of immigrants in the Cambridge Schools, comprising almost one third of the school population...
...Smith said voting citizens currently gain a lotfrom the presence of immigrants in the communitywithout giving them anything in return...
...Smith also said she thinks giving immigrantparents the right to vote for the School Committeewould increase their participation in the schoolsin other areas...
Antwaun L. Smith, a graduate of the Universityof Missouri who is currently pursuing a Ph.D. inChinese studies at the Graduate School of Arts andSciences, also received the Rhodes...