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Video: S.C. School’s Chief Jim Rex

By Education Week Staff — August 26, 2008 1 min read

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South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex came to Denver to try to put obesity on the agenda for education policymakers. Yesterday, he attended a forum sponsored by the Obesity Society and then toured the Omar D. Blair Charter School on the northeastern edge of Denver. I asked him why in this video:

Jim Rex, South Carolina school’s chief: