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Jeff Flake: “We must accept the fact that there is a lower tier in the system, and in that lower tier, genocide is being practiced…”

On the recordNovember 4, 1997
We must accept the fact that there is a lower tier in the system, and in that lower tier, genocide is being practiced every day, and when they cannot manage these children, they put them in special ed. It is the first track toward incarceration, and we wind up spending money for those children later on.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Addressing issues in the education system and its impact on children.

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