Your report demonstrates, in an impressive manner, that a comparatively modest expenditure of funds, coupled with wide public interest, can bring really dramatic results in reducing school dropouts.
Letter to the Commissioner of Education on the School Dropout Problem.
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We also have a program here for those whom we regard as mentally restored, those who pass through a difficult period but who are now fully capable of carrying their burden.
The concurrence of the Board of Commissioners in those recommendations should assure that the entire District Highway Program can now move forward.
So the central responsibility, of course, is to try to develop a climate in this country where there is as close to full employment as we can get it, and then to give particular attention to those who are handicapped.
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