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Spellings to Lead Delegation

By Alyson Klein — September 26, 2006 1 min read
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Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will lead a federal delegation to Ukraine this week to commemorate the 65th anniversary on Sept. 27 of the massacre in Babyn Yar. In 1941, tens of thousands of Jews and Gypsies were killed at the site by the Nazis and laid in a mass grave.

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A version of this article appeared in the September 27, 2006 edition of Education Week

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