02/12/2013
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"I am looking forward to discussing this further today and I am certainly going to keep fighting to make sure we are moving our students and our schools forward, not backward."
"Forty States. And if you look at between the late 1980s, when sentencing, mandatory minimums, three strikes you are out started to hit, the growth in State funding for prisons and incarceration dramat..."
"Every one of our babies deserves a system that starts them strong and supports them at every step."
"Investments in education, from early childhood programs through college, are some of the smartest the Federal Government can make."