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    11 months ago

    turning down federal money (the now-permanent program is paid for by the feds, not by the participating states) because it would go to poor kids.

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      The real reason with Republicans for shit like this is that it might stand a chance of going to at least one minority kid.

      It’s the same impulse that caused towns in the south to fill in municipal swimming pools instead of integrate.