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Jack Reed: “We stopped that. You could talk to almost any of our schools today, they are focused on retention.”

On the recordJune 11, 2013
We stopped that. You could talk to almost any of our schools today, they are focused on retention.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Senator Reed notes a shift in focus from open access to student retention in education.

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