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An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School

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Today we bring you the first in a three-part series on how the constant threat of gun violence in parts of Oakland is changing the lives of schoolchildren there. In this story we meet Jacqueline Funes, a little girl paralyzed from the neck down after being hit by a random bullet. The Oakland Unified School District must continue her education, but that gunshot cost Jacqueline months of classwork.

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