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George W. Bush: There's nothing worse than having a school system where centralized authority says, 'You must do it this way,' and when…

On the recordMarch 28, 2001
There's nothing worse than having a school system where centralized authority says, 'You must do it this way,' and when there's failure, somebody says, 'Oh, we would have succeeded except somebody told me to do it the way we didn't want to do it.'
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George W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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