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Joshua Acevedo: “If you look at what happened with No Child Left Behind at…”

Featuring: Joshua Acevedo, El Paso City Council, District 2 | Texas

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El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk

Published | Video Starts at 42:49

You're there on privilege. Right. And so what are we doing with the public school system instead of doing that? And I, I think If you look at what happened with No Child Left Behind at the beginning of the 2000s, that was a way to reform schools. We're going to have vouchers, we're going to have school closures, we're going to have charter schools. And not much has changed in that. In that time. Right. (42:49–42:58)

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Asserts that No Child Left Behind was intended as a school reform measure.

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