Nicole Baker Fulgham: Prepared Remarks for Meeting with U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

For Immediate Release May 24, 2018 Contact: Chris LaTondresse (202) 368-0139, chris@expectations.org Prepared remarks from Nicole Baker Fulgham, President, The Expectations Project for a meeting with U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on school discipline disparities ### Thank you Secretary DeVos for making this meeting possible, and for your team’s efforts to bring us together. I’m Dr. Nicole Baker Fulgham, founder …

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