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On the recordMarch 15, 2016
That in the Nixon school finance commission, in its summary, it said that as long as we have a property-based funded school system, poor children in our country are going to disproportionately fail.
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Chaka Fattah
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Fattah discusses the impact of property-based school funding on poor children.

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