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On the recordApril 11, 2016
I wrote a provision in this with Senator Grassley to allow foster kids--and have a mechanism to do it--to stay in the school that they're in, if they want to, when they change foster homes.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken discusses a provision for foster kids' school stability.

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