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Richard Burr: If this were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic, and we'd do whatever we needed to, to fix it.

On the recordMay 3, 2010
If this were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic, and we'd do whatever we needed to, to fix it.
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Richard Burr
Republican · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Burr compares the dropout rate to an epidemic requiring urgent action.

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