However, it welcomed the idea of using mobile clinics in rural areas unsupported by normal practices.

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Most rural residents aren't happy with the idea.

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Randy Weingarten of the AFT suggested a specific idea: community schools, especially in rural areas, where parents can get training after hours in the same place where their kids are learning during the day, and I think that's a terrific idea worth exploring.

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Jeff Sachs put forward the idea that we can and should intervene directly in rural villages.

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The idea would be to keep home to school transport for those attending faith schools and for rural schools and communities.

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Many have carped about Morris' brave but odd literary technique: The writer "fictionalized" himself as an American-born citizen and contemporary of Reagan's. (He's actually Kenyan-born and 59 years old.) The idea was to put a "camera" on Reagan, then follow him as he grew up in rural Illinois, reached manhood in Des Moines (as a Chicago Cubs announcer) and attained fame in Hollywood.

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