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U.S. Secretary of Education
Richard Riley's
America Goes Back To School Bus Tour

THE SUCCESS EXPRESS
Visits the Mississippi Delta
August 27-31, 2000

Winnsboro, Louisiana

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DATE: August 28, 2000

Secretary Riley visited schools in three states - Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi - on August 28, the second day of his Success Express America Goes Back to School bus tour.

The secretary?s first stop was Winnsboro High School in Franklin Parish, Louisiana. He visited a classroom at Winnsboro High housed in one of twenty portable classrooms outside the school. During a roundtable discussion, State Senator Noble Ellington told Secretary Riley, ?We need money to upgrade facilities?.We have trained educators that deserve a quality education.? In response, Secretary Riley described a bipartisan school construction bill that would provide $24.8 billion in interest free bonds to help build and modernize 6,000 schools nationwide.

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8/28--Winnsboro High School
portable classrooms.

8/28-- Pat Sartin, Teacher of
the Year for Franklin Parish,
teaches 10th grade math.

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