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The Importance Of Public Education
The term public education, when people think about it, conjures up the image of a neighborhood school that is open up to the whole public. But, it is so much more than that. Public education means a tuition free, publicly funded system that must provide an education to every student in the neighborhood. According to the Center of Public Education, “ Only the public schools are legally required to accept and retain all students, no matter their race, no matter their religion, no matter their educational attainment, social class, family income, special needs, or personal characteristics.” Only the public schools can guarantee that.
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