We stopped doing that in the mid-80s and 1990s, and, you know, it--and we're living off of the residual, in California, of those investments--we made in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ami Bera: “We stopped doing that in the mid-80s and 1990s, and, you know, it--and we're living off of the residual, in California…”
On the recordMarch 5, 2019
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Bera discusses the decline in educational investment in California.
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