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Good morning! This is Alex with Chalkbeat New York.

Our top story this morning is a rundown of a hotly anticipated school integration town hall with New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels.

Hannah-Jones began her line of questioning by promising an “interrogation.” Things did not cool down from there.

Samuels repeatedly refused to commit to specific integration policies — and acknowledged that the administration’s thinking is influenced by fears of community pushback.

Here are five takeaways from their conversation.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones grills NYC schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels on integration at combative town hall

New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones pressed schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels for details on integrating NYC schools at a tense town hall. He offered few specifics or timelines.

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