Bill Clinton actually said...

I think the $1.6 billion would be far better spent funding charter schools, funding school standards programs, funding the master teacher program, and helping to fund this school construction program.

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Remarks on the 1998 Legislative Agenda and an Exchange With Reporters

04/20/1998

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