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Atlanta Inquirer
09-19-1998
School Voucher Controversy Escalates As National African American Leaders Coalesce Around Issue: CBC Members Decry Campaign To Promote Vouchers To Minority And Disadvantaged Groups

As Congress prepares to take up education as one of its priorities, members of the Congressional Black Caucus have joined forces with the national African American Ministers Leadership Council, the NAACP and the People For the American Way Foundation to make clear to conservatives who are aggressively pushing voucher legislation that their proposals would hurt most minority and ...

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