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On the recordJuly 23, 2014
This manager's amendment would bolster the Department of Education's ability to help identify and share best practices from experimentation at demonstration project sites. Really, through this careful review and analysis, lawmakers can be sure that competency-based education is working and can identify any future policy issues that would need to come back to us or others at the State level. I encourage my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this amendment so we can move one step closer to making colleges more affordable and accessible. I yield back the balance of my time.
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Democratic · Colorado
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