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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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