Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the first meeting of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s FACTS task force. Learn more here: “Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson fights for fairness and accountability in public school classrooms.”
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