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Crowded Schools

Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Frank Petrozelli Superintendent for Broward County Schools in Florida about the problem of public school overcrowding. Demographers attribute the overcrowding problem to something they call the baby boom echo, a term which describes the children of the baby boom generation. Petrozelli says his schools must accomodate 10 thousand new students each year.

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