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David Roe: “If you take our schools with 10 percent poverty or less, and poverty is defined by free and reduced lunch, we have the…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 2014
If you take our schools with 10 percent poverty or less, and poverty is defined by free and reduced lunch, we have the highest 15-year-old test scores in the world, bar none, period.
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David Roe
Republican · Vermont

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Roe argues that poverty, not education quality, affects test scores.

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