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On the recordMay 11, 2009
you really have to wonder what kind of people would look at a child in the third grade that can't read, knowing that that problem will put them on a trajectory towards prisons, and start building prisons rather than come up with some literacy programs to get them back on another trajectory.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

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Scott criticizes prioritizing prisons over literacy programs for struggling children.

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