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On the recordMay 24, 2010
So the higher the poverty, the better quality of the program, the more the subsidy that you got, which I thought was a clever way of trying to deal with the quality issue as well as the issue of access.
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

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Bennet discusses a funding model linking poverty to program quality in education.

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