REMARKS BY GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
JULY 27, 1992
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In 1980, the federal government was contributing about ten percent of the cost of public education, down to about six percent now. Think what a difference that would make in California today, just that. Think what it means to the poor states, like the delta states. Think what it means to the inner cities. Think what it means to the school districts who suffer from the savage inequalities that the great American writer Jonathan Kozel chronicled in his book.
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For the past thirty-five years, Jonathon Kozol has been an advocate for children. He points out the discrepancies that make our educational system so blatantly hypocritical.
http://tinyurl.com/adjx2 - Kozol's website
"But [no one] can tell us what it means to a child to leave his often hellish home and go to a school -his hope for a transcendent future-that is literally falling apart."
Boy he sounds fun.