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Poll workers will skip class, reap a little cash

By Donovan Slack
Globe Staff / November 7, 2006

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Steven Berbeco, who teaches US government at Charlestown High School, made the students in his advanced placement class an offer they could not refuse: Take a day off school and get paid $135. That they'd also be fulfilling a badly needed civic role may have been beside the point, but either way, they took the bait. (Full article: 576 words)

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