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Sheldon Whitehouse: “What I'm hearing from my principals' and teachers' world is that the footprint of that first world has become way too…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
What I'm hearing from my principals' and teachers' world is that the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Senator Whitehouse discusses the imbalance between education contractors and classroom educators.

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