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Dick Durbin: “There are good ones and bad ones. There are some very good ones, and not so good ones.”

On the recordSeptember 15, 2009
There are good ones and bad ones. There are some very good ones, and not so good ones.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin reflects on the varying quality of charter schools in Chicago.

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