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Emerson Etheridge: “I have never had a child nor an administrator nor a teacher ask me whether the money came from the Federal, State, or…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2000
I have never had a child nor an administrator nor a teacher ask me whether the money came from the Federal, State, or local. They just knew they did not have enough. Even in some of the nicer schools we go into, and it is true in my State and I assume it is across the country, as the gentleman talked about earlier, these people are there because they care. They work hard. They take our most precious possessions, our children, and they work hard at educating them.
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Emerson Etheridge
Ind. Republican-Democrat · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the roles of federal, state, and local governments in education funding.

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