Proponents say the bill will save unaccredited districts from bankruptcy, but opponents like Representative Clem Smith say the plan hurts poor students in those districts.
"They keep bringing up these poor black kids in Normandy, these poor black kids in the Riverview school district," Rep. Clem Smith, D-St. Louis, said. "And (they say) we've got to save them, but this bill doesn't do it."
"They keep bringing up these poor black kids in Normandy, these poor black kids in the Riverview school district," Rep. Clem Smith, D-St. Louis, said. "And (they say) we've got to save them, but this bill doesn't do it."
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