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Hallies says he supports full funding of the state Standards of Quality for education, which could cost $500 million by some estimates. Baliles also claims Durrette doesn’t support that initiative, but Durrette says that isn’t true.
“It’s just because I won’t say the magic words — ‘fully fund the standards of quality’ — that I’ve given them somewhat of an issue I shouldn’t have given them. But I’ll take my lumps on that.”
Durrette says he can’t commit to spending millions of dollars that might not be available.
“I’m just not going to make that kind of blanket commitment,” he said, “without knowing the full
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