Bill Clinton actually said...

We are not as good as we ought to be as a country in taking the things that work well in some school districts and seeing them spread throughout the country.

Context

Remarks on Signing the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 in Framingham, Massachusetts

10/19/1994

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