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Gerry Connolly: “Well, if I could commend it to your review, as somebody who ran the eleventh largest school district in America, it…”

On the recordMay 24, 2011
Well, if I could commend it to your review, as somebody who ran the eleventh largest school district in America, it costs a lot of money to implement No Child Left Behind, well in excess of $100 million.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly highlights the financial burden of implementing No Child Left Behind on school districts.

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