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On the recordMarch 19, 2014
I was disappointed when we had a proposition initiative to raise the amount of funding for school children in our public schools--I believe we are 49th in the country--that there was active opposition on the part of the business community to that initiative, including billionaires from outside the state that funded the effort to undo that.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva expresses disappointment over opposition to funding for public schools.

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