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On education, LePage said he was encouraged by his meeting with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, but remained wary of the revived No Child Left Behind, the education reform law passed by the Bush administration.
"They did say they are going to work very hard at raising the standard of education and that was welcome news because that's what we feel, that in Maine, the education has been dumbed down quite a bit," LePage said. There's some talk about bringing back No Child Left Behind, a new version and that scared me. Because in Maine, I haven't heard any educator tell me that No Child Left Behind was good for a rural state. I think it's more of a large, metro, inner-city type program."
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