But he had his own sort of magic that lifted the lad from the slums through the American educational system to eventually a scholarship to Harvard, where he gained a doctorate.

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After Katrina, we reinvented the New Orleans school system, opening dozens of new charter schools, and creating a new scholarship program that is giving parents the chance to send their children to private or parochial schools of their choice.

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