I just want to say to my friend from Arkansas that some years ago, back in the 1990s, I and my other colleagues from Iowa provided startup funding for AP online, advanced placement courses online, because we have small towns like you do, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas.
Harkin discusses funding for online AP courses to help small towns access education.
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