Richard Durbin actually said...

Well, I'm going to turn it over to my colleagues, here, but it appears, in District of Columbia here, we have different standards: standards for the public schools, standards for the charter schools, voluntary standards accepted by the Archdiocesan schools, but when it comes to voucher schools, it's a little different situation, here.

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Durbin highlights inconsistencies in educational standards for different types of schools.

09/15/2009

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