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    Commentary: All families deserve good school choice options

    By Shirley Ford I realized there was a problem as early as elementary school. I always knew that my boys were smart – they started reading me the newspaper in the evening when they were 6 years old – but they were clearly bored and not being challenged in school. Like so many young African-American...

    By Guest contributor | February 12, 2016



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