On the recordOctober 31, 1997
I have visited a school called the Options Charter School, where they serve 100 percent minority, 100 percent eligible for free and reduced lunches. Most of those students are two to three grade levels behind where they should be, and they failed through the D.C. public school system. We created a charter school there. That is our solution partly, not a panacea or silver bullet, but this Options Charter School, to say we want to help with discipline, with safety, with more parental involvement, with better ratios of students and teachers in these charter schools, and experimentation. That is our solution.
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