On the recordSeptember 15, 2009
What we've heard here is parents and students voting with their feet, and leaving the D.C. public schools.
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congress.govDick Durbin: “What we've heard here is parents and students voting with their feet, and leaving the D.C. public schools.”
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Durbin discusses the shift of students from public to charter schools.
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