"The first teachers of every child are their parents. If they can't read, that makes it harder & harder for children to start school ready to learn. [My mother] believed that to her core, acted on it & drew a whole bunch of people to this cause." – Jeb Bush during a lecture series on the 1989 Education Summit at the University of New England.
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