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Back to EpisodesKeeping Phones Out of Classrooms & Funding SEPTA with State Senator Hughes
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State Senator Vincent Hughes, representing Philadelphia in the legislature since the mid-1980s, joins host Trenae Nuri for our weekly Wednesday politics show to talk about his bill to ban students from using phones in schools (which advanced yesterday to a vote in the senate), a new law to prevent discrimination based on hair (which was signed into law last month), and the reasons why SEPTA still needs more money (despite the recent bailouts) .
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