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I to a state sponsored monopoly for our most important business - the business of educating our children. If we, as a nation, can ever get beyond self-serving rhetoric of the national teachers’ unions and introduce real competition in our public schools, we will achieve the same excellence m ^ public education that we now enjoy in American business. Jeffrey E. Knight Washington
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