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Todd Russell Platts: “My concern is that the president's budget proposal is trying to reinvent the wheel at the expense of proven and…”

On the recordMarch 27, 2012
My concern is that the president's budget proposal is trying to reinvent the wheel at the expense of proven and critically needed Perkins programs.
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Todd Russell Platts
Pennsylvania

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Platts critiques the president's budget for undermining effective education programs.

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