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by Mark McDermott 
At the beginning of last week’s Kids Need Classrooms rally outside City Hall, organizers stood before an audience of about 100 people and held placards aloft that were stamped with headshots of four Manhattan Beach Unified School District board members, Superintendent Mike Matthews, and teacher union leader Shawn Chen. 
Rally organizer Tiffany Wright told the audience of about 100, which included Mayor Suzanne Hadley and City Councilmember Joe Franklin, that those six people were responsible for kids not being in classrooms. 
“Those people are the red lighters,” Wright said. “We’ve got Shawn Chen the teachers union….Mike Matthews, superintendent of our school district here.”  ....

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