"Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.“


-Ed Markey

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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

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