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Rick Allen: “Education is simply too important in this country to leave it to someone else. We all have to participate. We all have…”

On the recordOctober 14, 1998
Education is simply too important in this country to leave it to someone else. We all have to participate. We all have to participate in fighting crime, and that is what we did when we asked for 100,000 new police on the streets, and we got them in every district around this country. Now what we are saying is education is too important to leave the federal government out of it. The public servants who work for this government, for the state government and the local governments have to join together. Mr. Speaker, we need support for 100,000 new teachers in this country. That is what we are fighting for as Democrats right now, and we are not going home until we have that as part of this agenda.
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Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia
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Discussing the importance of federal involvement in education funding and support for new teachers.

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