Schools, students line up to plea for more D.C. money

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Amid low test scores, low graduation rates and problems with truancy, many District residents have suggested that D.C. Public Schools needs to clean itself up.

But not until Wednesday, during a public hearing on the public schools’ budget, was a resident actually compelled to bring toilet paper to the D.C. Council chambers.

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