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Ronald Reagan: “The primary responsibility for educating these children lies with the local communities and the States, and not with the…”

On the recordApril 27, 1988
The primary responsibility for educating these children lies with the local communities and the States, and not with the Federal Government.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks on Signing the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988

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