Dinner with Bill Clinton

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"A magical evening, so full of interesting comments, I wish I recorded it all… He seems to be aging like a fine wine, from what I have seen over six meetings spread over the years…In response to recent results on the poor performance of the U.S. educational system compared to other nations:“For too long the Democrats have been focused on the teachers unions and the Republicans have focused on local control and property taxes, and neither party has focused on the children. At the fourth grade, our students are internationally competitive, but my 10th grade there is a huge chasm. It’s not as if their brains have been sucked out. The educational system has failed them. In other countries, they go to school longer each year and they test for performance. I was a big advocate for charter schools in 1992 when there were just a few of them in the nation. Charter schools are driving the best results in public schools today.”
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