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Sen. Patty Murray, ESSA Architect, on Clinton, Trump, and Sanders

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Sen. Patty Murray D-Wash, is "just ecstatic" about the prospect of working with a possible President Hillary Clinton on expanding access to early-childhood education, she said in an interview here during the Democratic National Convention.

The two share a passion for the policy. Murray, a former preschool teacher and the top Democrat on the Senate education committee, pushed hard for the inclusion of the Preschool Development Grant program in the Every Student Succeeds Act. But it sounds like she's optimistic that she might be able to go even further, or get more money for the program, in a potential Clinton ...

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