If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a com…

Sonia Sotomayor
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If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs. ✨ Interview with Anderson Cooper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. March 7, 2013.
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