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Gilbert Gutknecht: “It is hard to get excited about improving rich suburban schools. However, for poor children trapped, the case is moral…”

On the recordNovember 7, 1997
It is hard to get excited about improving rich suburban schools. However, for poor children trapped, the case is moral rather than merely educational. These kids attend schools which cannot protect them, much less teach them. To require poor people to go to dangerous, dysfunctional schools that better-off people fled and would never tolerate for their own children, all the while intoning pieties about "saving" public education, is worse than unsound public policy. It is repugnant public policy.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing school choice and its implications for poor children.

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