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The terrible news coming out of [New Orleans] about the children being murdered must put our efforts while we are here at [the New Schools Venture Fund Summit] in perspective Our children need us more than ever at so many different levels. Their dreams and hopes. Their very lives are at stake.
Howard Fuller, eulogizing 15-year-old KIPP Believe College Prep student Christine Marcelin, who was senselessly murdered last week. It is important to systemically reform American public education so that we keep our kids out of poverty and prison. And it is equally vital that we improve quality if life in all areas of our communities so that our kids are as safe outside of schools as they should be in them. We shouldn’t have to bury our children’s futures or their bodies.