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Barack Obama: “We can stop sending our children to schools with corridors of shame and start putting them on a pathway to success.”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2008
We can stop sending our children to schools with corridors of shame and start putting them on a pathway to success.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Following the New Hampshire Primary

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