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This statement was made by a representative of the education department of Connecticut, then a Republican state, when she was explaining why the market mechanism could not be allowed to dominate the field of education.

It is the obligation of the State to make sure that education is good, that there are high standards and that it is equally available to everybody.

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© 1990 Jenny Wales

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Wales, J. (1990). Education. In: Investigating Social Issues. Economics Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21063-3_3

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