There are good ones and bad ones. There are some very good ones, and not so good ones.
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
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Durbin reflects on the varying quality of charter schools in Chicago.
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