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On the recordJune 23, 2014
When you are spending billions and billions of dollars, and the government is not even telling gifted young people like Amber Lee, an Oregonian who is doing everything right, what the possible tools are in this education toolkit, something is way, way out of whack, and we are going to get this fixed.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes the need for government transparency in education funding.

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