D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray stood before a group of high school students Saturday and defended pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into school building renovations while the students inside struggle to bring up languishing test scores.

Students gathered for a Youth Town Hall at Woodrow Wilson High School expressed concerns on a wide range of subjects: from the number of community service hours given for donating blood, to college scholarships and the overall quality of the District’s education.

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