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On the recordFebruary 24, 2016
Clearly, these are the kind of things that we now know looking back that if we had fully funded them and kept them going, the achievement gap might not be what it is today.
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Mark DeSaulnier
Democratic · California

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DeSaulnier reflects on past funding decisions impacting the achievement gap in education.

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