Frederick earned his bachelor's degree in marketing from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

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Deloitte LLP paired up with Indiana University's Kelley School of Business last November to offer a certificate in business analytics to its midlevel employees.

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But Kelley has shelved legislation that would have let Missouri school staff carry firearms if they have concealed gun permits.

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Thater's favorite Kelley story: He told her that to get to school, he had to step across an open sewer.

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It also doesn't hurt that in Kelley, Shankman has discovered a prodigious hoofer of the old school.

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Joseph Kelley, who lives in Washington, had been invited to explain the benefits of school choice, or vouchers, which had allowed him to take his four children out of a crime-ravaged public school and send them to the private Preparatory School of D.

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That's exactly what Kelley Williams-Bolar did, pulling her 12- and 16-year-old daughters out of the decrepit school they attended in Akron, Ohio, and enrolling them in a suburban district where her father lived.

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