On the recordOctober 14, 1998
I have been in classrooms that water was in the basement, that we needed to move children out of the basement and out of harm's way, and in buildings that were fire codes that we had to move them out of. And 2 years ago in my State we had raised a lot of awareness on the need for school facilities, and we are not unlike any other State. North Carolina still has tremendous needs. We have grown very rapidly, and you were talking about the growth of students in the public schools, and we are now in the midst of what is being called the baby boom echo, the largest number of children showing up in the public schools over the next 10 years, and that is true today we have ever had, and North Carolina will be the fifth fastest growing State, the fifth; New York being the fourth; California being the first; Texas being second and Florida, number 3, over the next 10 years of students because of this phenomenon of growth.
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