The Case for the 'Teacher Bailout'
Why spending $23 billion to keep public school teachers employed might be a good idea
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Kids, listen up: don't start dropping out of high school just because the Tumblr CEO David Karp, who just sold his Internet company to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, had neither a high school nor a college degree.
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