Kentucky high school student journalists penned an editorial taking on Betsy DeVos after they say security turned them away from an event held on a public college campus that featured the secretary of education
In an editorial titled "No Seat at the Roundtable," student journalists attending Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, Kentucky, say they were barred from covering the event last Wednesday because they didn't have an invitation.
Matt Bevin, was held at the Bluegrass Community Technical College's Newtown campus and was billed as a"Roundtable on Education Freedom Scholarships." The students said they heard about the event the day before, on April 16, from social media and local news reports and"immediately began making plans to be there because as young journalists, we appreciate any opportunity received to demonstrate our professionalism.
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