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Article: Bill Clinton on how to save the public schools.(excerpt from Pres. Clinton's speech on public education reform)
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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In the March issue, we ran a story on the peril of the country's public schools that began by noting that the nation's leaders have consistently failed to make education a top priority. The piece specifically criticized President Clinton who, with his daughter safely enrolled in the private Sidwell Friends School, has "kept us waiting" on public education.
Since then, the President has risen in the polls and, newly confident, begun to consider what he might do in a second term. According to a report by Matthew Cooper in The New Republic, the point man for developing that vision is domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed. And Reed's most recent major project, with speech ...