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The number was an eye-opener: $9 million.
That's how much state legislatures cut from their education budgets this year, Democrats in Congress said Oct. 8, including a disturbing $6.8 billion from K-12 education.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Rep. George Miller of California, the leading Democrats on the committees that focus on education in each chamber, used those numbers at a news conference to call for more federal education spending to...
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