“We cannot tolerate a situation in which...
“We cannot tolerate a situation in which we are losing so much in human lives . . . and even in cold hard dollars.”
--Shirley Hufstedler, former U.S. secretary of education, a member of a blue-ribbon panel that studied the health and welfare of California’s 7.6 million children and gave the state a D grade.
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