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Paul Coverdell: “As a resident of the Carver Homes Public Housing Community since 1955, I have witnessed generations of young African…”

On the recordJune 24, 1998
As a resident of the Carver Homes Public Housing Community since 1955, I have witnessed generations of young African Americans grow up in one our Nation's poorest neighborhoods. In the 1980s, I fought the epidemic of crack cocaine among our youth by working to kick drug dealers out of our community. In the 1990s, I find myself fighting the epidemic of hopelessness that has resulted from the increasing failure of our public schools to educate poor, urban children. As the Chairperson of the City Wide Advisory Council on Public Housing (``CWAC'') and on behalf of the thousands of Atlanta public housing residents the Council represents, I ask you to provide us with hope for improving the K-12 education of our children. By way of this letter, I urge both of you to continue this important trend of granting parents greater choice in the education of their children.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia
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Discussing public housing and education issues in Atlanta.

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