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On the recordOctober 23, 1997
That test will drive the education agenda in America. The handful of textbook publishers in this country who write our students textbooks will write that national test. Can you imagine the amalgamation of power in this small little committee that the President appointed to write this one test and he did an end run around the Congress?
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John Shadegg
Arizona

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Discussing concerns over a national education test and its implications for power and influence.

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