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CER Praises Trump/DeVos School Choice Action Meeting

June 14, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

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Newswire – June 11, 2019

June 11, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

D.C. SCHOOLS CHANNEL TITANIC OFFICERS. A memorable scene in the movie “Titanic” was the ship’s officers refusing to unlock gates that kept steerage passengers trapped below decks, condemned to drown. The officers could care less, those passengers were after all just poor folks. The D.C government is treating 12,000 poor kids waiting to get into charter schools the same way, condemning them to drown in underperforming schools. The district controls one million square feet of abandoned school buildings that the charters would quickly turn into quality schools for the students. It is an outrage, but one you can help stop. Go to End The List to learn more and to make your voice heard.

ROLE MODELS “R” US. The importance of positive role models in forming character and improving school performance in kids is undisputed. In a piece that shows – yet again - charters’ positive impact on disadvantaged students, a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute shows that black students in charter schools are more likely to have black teachers than their peers in traditional public schools. The charter students also showed academic gains, especially in math. So please remind us, charters hurt poor kids how?

KIDS CAUGHT IN CHARLOTTE’S WEB. Parents in South Charlotte want the opportunity to send their kids to a popular charter (magnet) school – whether or not they live in the “right” zip code. Nope, say the educrats on the school board, we know best. Most of the students must live in the zip code, but we will magnanimously allow a few outside the zip code to attend. A zip code should not be a prison for kids stuck in underperforming schools.Yet more 20th century thinking punishing 21st century students in need of options and excellence.

GRANNY KNOWS BEST. The backward thinking in Charlotte may be a reflection of the hostility toward choice and innovation demonstrated by Tar Heel state Governor Roy Cooper. He has proposed ending the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship program which allows low-income families to send their children to a better school. A report on Cooper’s antipathy toward education excellence quotes at length a concerned – and wise - grandmother with 3 grandchildren in the program. Her grandson, suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, which makes social interaction difficult, was able to get a disability scholarship along with the Opportunity Scholarship. “That will allow him to have a little one-on-one help for him. He’s very intelligent, just sometimes misses the social cues. And I think being in a school like this will help,” Here’s hoping the legislature listens to granny.

MYOPIA BEACON HILL. One of Massachusetts’ most successful schools – of any type – is the Alma del Mar Academy in New Bedford. The school wanted to expand to serve students and families in other, close by neighborhoods. The sad reaction of the legislature – firmly in the grips of the establishment educrats and unions – was horror and blocking the expansion. CER’s Founder & CEO Jeanne Allen took them to the woodshed in a blistering response.

ABE WOULD BE PROUD. Proving the power of parental involvement in voicing support for school choice of all kinds, parents, grandparents and friends in Illinois achieved a significant victory when they preserved the state's Scholarship Tax Credit despite open opposition from Governor J.B. Pritzker. The Land of Lincoln not only listened to the adults, but empowered its students with meaningful education options…dare we say of the people, by the people and for the people.

HOME OF CHOICE MOVEMENT SHINES AGAIN. Milwaukee is widely acknowledged to be the birthplace of the modern school choice movement, thanks to the Herculean efforts of then Governor Tommy Thompson. It recently notched another victory for underserved kids with the graduating class atChristo Rey Jesuit High School. Every student in the class will be the first in their family accepted to college. All 85 graduates received at least two acceptances to four-year colleges. Almost all the students are Hispanic, and almost all attend the school on taxpayer-funded vouchers through the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. After all the rhetoric and political posturing, THIS is what education choice and options are all about.

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Founded in 1993, the Center for Education Reform aims to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes for all Americans — particularly our youth — ensuring that conditions are ripe for innovation, freedom and flexibility throughout U.S. education.

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Newswire – June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

SHOW ME SHOWS US. When the Kansas City business community first started tackling how best to improve the city’s schools, they tried everything. From the biggest installation of Teach for America to lots of money, nothing worked. Finally former Kaufmann Foundation president Carl Schramm thought to himself, let’s model a good school. So they invested in a charter, hired a faculty...bought a campus from a failing church, started the Ewing Marion Kauffman School to create college graduates...and it worked! Most of its 5th graders came in reading at the FIRST grade level and now every one of their graduates received early admission to college and Kauffman’s valedictorian is headed to Yale! Now that’s education!

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. We just can’t help but see the incongruity of the logic still in the political classes today who can’t conceive of why schools like the one above (or below) need to exist - and grow! But the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition and its fearless director Sonia Park help us see through the Alice in Wonderland -like looking glass that seems to color a lot of the media these days, and sets the record straight in the New York Times, pointing out that the amazing diversity of charter schools across the country.

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE WISING UP. The Wall Street Journal reports enrollment at four year colleges fell almost 20% from 2018, but the number of college students under age 18 is up - because of high demand dual-enrollment classes where high school students can also take college courses. The reason is not rocket science to anyone except ossified educrats - learners take advantage of pathways and options when they are offered. With a hat tip to Kevin Costner, offer it and they will come.

EVEN BETTER THAN A CALIFORNIA CABERNET is this column by the former General Counsel of the L.A.U.S.D. in the Sonoma County Gazette, making a water-tight case for personalized learning, and that as good as it is, it can’t fully succeed without active parental involvement. His bottom line, “There are traditional public schools and charters that have embraced change and validated that it works. Test scores are up. Dropouts are down. Discipline problems have shrunk. College-going is up. Their students are empowered.” This may be self-evident to many of us, but here’s hoping his former colleagues still at the L.A.U.S.D. - who seem to be consumed with restricting the kinds of schools that gave birth to personalized learning like The Alliance for College Ready Public Schools - read and take to heart his words of wisdom.

ALPHA STUDENTS AT ALPHA ACADEMY. CER’s Founder & CEO Jeanne Allen recently gave the commencement address at Alpha Academy, a charter school in Fayetteville, North Carolina whose Katherine G. Johnson S.T.E.M. Institute, named after the NASA Pioneer, is the only one of its kind. Mrs. Johnson’s impact on American history, as well as her love for mathematics and teaching, led Alpha Academy to choose her as the face of its inspiration. Jeanne told the students that people like Katherine Johnson pushed the limits of what is possible, and that space exploration and science have created so many of the products and tools that save lives today. “Pushing beyond the boundaries of convention is what your teachers and your parents do everyday. Help them succeed by being your success. This charter makes that possible," she told the parents. "Protect it and grow it,” Jeanne said, to much applause.

RADICAL IS NOT A FOUR LETTER WORD. The first definition for “radical” listed in Webster’s is: “Especially of change or action - relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.” The guest on Jeanne's podcast this week is a living example of that. Self-described “radical educator” Dennis Littky talks about his ideas for making education meaningful, impactful and relevant to individual students. Through his work as a school leader and founder of College Unbound, Dennis serves students whose needs are not met by traditional education and adults who are among the 37 million college dropouts. College Unbound creates education specifically around their interests while allowing them to get a degree while also working full time. We need more “radicals” like Dennis.

CER CHANNELS HOTEL CALIFORNIA. Remember the Hotel California? You could check out any time you like but you could never leave? We are delighted to have had that effect on Michael Musante, a CER alum and longtime advisor who this week officially re-joins us as Executive Vice President. Welcome back Michael!

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CER Reacts to the New Bedford Charter Expansion Failure

June 4, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

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Charter Schools are Public Schools, But Do They Serve the Public Interest?

June 3, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

Innovation spurred by charter schools has improved student outcomes, created more personalized and customized learning environments for students, and driven innovation in traditional schools that would have otherwise not occurred. Read more in this essay featuring Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of CER and Nina Rees, the President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

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Newswire – May 29, 2019

May 29, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

A DAY LATE BUT STILL TIMELY. If it’s Tuesday it must be CER Newswire day, except when Monday is a holiday. We hope you had a great Memorial Day and were able to pause to recognize those in uniform who have fought so valiantly to protect and defend freedom. Freedom comes at a price, though. It includes not only vigilance, but recognition of our prized principles. Education is the key to understanding both. Which is why our continued failure to deliver exceptional schools for all kids, like this story in an unlikely upper income area, is so tragic...

LAX, VAGUE AND INCONSISTENT. That’s the description of Montgomery County Maryland’s high school graduation policy in last Sunday’s Washington Post expos é. And that’s the good news. The bad news is that the county education establishment is blatantly rigging the rates, allowing students to graduate while missing as many as 47 days of class. The worse news is that while making the educrats look good, the policy harms students. A variety of experts observe that “chronic absenteeism can threaten student success and undermine efforts to reduce achievement gaps that leave black and Hispanic students lagging”…as well as make those students “more likely to drop out of high school or not finish college.” Have the administrators no pride?

AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION. The scandalous graduation rate policy of Montgomery County is an open secret, but just a few miles away, the D.C. Public Charter School Board approved five new charters (in spite of the usual objections from the usual suspects) making the total number of charter schools in the District 128. The reason for these is precisely because the DC public school system was failing students, and these bright public lights of excellence would never get away with the kind of lax standards we see in MoCo, one of the nation’s wealthiest. Maryland’s charter school law ranks an F on CER’s National Charter School Rankings and Scorecard, for numerous reasons, including the fact that only school districts may approve them, so when savvy Montgomery county parents pointed out over the years that having a charter would help them better educate and raise standards for their children, they were rebuffed from the self-acclaimed “best” school district in the nation. Of course, one would also then have to wonder why more than 20% of families choose private schools for their children. Seems parents already know the deficiencies...but we digress…

A SCHOOL PLAYLIST – NO SONGS, LOTS OF LEARNING. If you are like most who are unaware of blended learning, playlists and other remarkable innovations helping students learn, do yourself a favor and read about Cisco Junior High School. Located in Cisco, Texas, the school gives teachers the autonomy to implement learning however they think would be best for their particular classroom, allows students to move at different speeds and have a choice of learning activities. Freedom and creativity that is student centered! Big city districts have lots to learn from this small town’s school.

PUNISHING A GOOD DEED. Senator Cory Booker seems to us the very model, if not of a modern major general most certainly of a modern liberal Democrat. Having been the Mayor of Newark New Jersey however, he saw up close that many public schools were harming low income and minority students, leading him to become a strong advocate of charter schools. It also led him to form a friendship with Betsy DeVos nearly 20 years ago, and that is an unforgivable sin among the “hate charters” crowd. In spite of being rated one of the five most liberal Senators Booker was the subject of a scurrilous hit piece from the left because of his past bipartisan efforts with DeVos. The smear is a good example of why good people of all persuasions shy away from politics.

SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOE! Why was AFT boss Randi Weingarten hanging out with big Joe as he rallied the troops in Houston, announcing he’d pour more federal money into schools if he were president. Yes, and we have some swamp land for you to buy….But seriously, Mr VP, Senator and just plain Joe. We knew you when you supported DC scholarships, and charter schools. What happened? (see first line…)

SANDERS’ WAR ON CHARTERS PUNISHES AMERICA’S POOREST KIDS. Socialist Bernie Sanders was out in front of them all last Friday before Memorial Day, digging into opportunity for kids. His comments have been trounced everywhere from teacher to parents to the Washington Post insightful piece -- all of which convincingly lays out the damage Sanders could do to some of our most at-risk communities.

PARENTS ON FRONT LINES OF EDUCATION FAILURE SUPPORT CHARTERS. Just down the road from Newark is the home of the Liberty Bell, the world’s best cheesesteak sandwiches and 2 – 1 support for charter schools among voters. The City of Brotherly Love is one of America’s most Democrat cities, yet in a recent poll voters supported charter schools by a 42% - 20% margin, with the balance undecided. That’s why when Excellent Schools PA rallied recently, they found widespread support and grave disappointment that their leaders can’t support more necessary options. The answer to America’s troubled schools is empowering clear-eyed parents like this, comparing results and supporting what is best for their kids. In the spirit of Ben Franklin we advise opponents to go fly a kite.

Source: David M Warren / Philly.com

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Newswire – May 21, 2019

May 21, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

FIGHTING BACK. Doing his part in the continuing war on educational opportunities for disadvantaged kids, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has submitted a budget that will end the state’s “Opportunity Scholarship Program”. The program currently provides up to $4,200 per school year to low income students - currently over 9,500 participate - to attend any school they wish. Savvy businessmen, knowing the need for qualified graduates entering the workforce, are fighting back. We say it’s about time, and hope this is just the first salvo of a full fledged counter-offensive.

SCHOOL KIDS HELD HOSTAGE IN MICHIGAN. $50 million in already approved and received federal grants intended to open more charter schools in Michigan is being held hostage by anti-charter, anti-choice bullies on the state school board. The real hostages here are the school kids who are being trapped in failing schools. The education bullies are so fierce that even a Democrat member of the board who lives in Detroit, where more than half the students attend charter or private schools, abstained from voting. Suffer the little children.

FRESH AIR IN THE MOUNTAINEER STATE. West Virginia was the site of a typically ugly union strike against school kids earlier this year. The only good thing to come out of it was that in an unguarded moment the state's AFT President admitted the strike wasn’t about salary or class size, but was really about eliminating charters. Two top education researchers recently set the record straight about charters and exposed the unions' deception and duplicity.

EPIC ACHIEVEMENTS FOR EPIC CHARTERS. EPIC Charter Schools in Oklahoma has 231 students inducted into the National Honor Society (NHS). The current NHS President at the school is walking, talking evidence of what charters do for kids of all backgrounds. As one educator at the school says “a priority for us is to create an academic model that is conducive to student success”. What a concept.

BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT. And also wisdom. In explaining his support of school choice, New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut got maximum impact from minimal verbiage in saying “I’m a supporter of school choice because I’m a supporter of children.” Wish we had said that…oh, we have!

EXCELLENCE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Like most charter and choice proponents, Commissioner Edelblut has the facts to back up his words. Just last week the Academy for Science and Design charter school in Nashua was named New Hampshire's top high school for 2019. The school’s director engaged in a bit of understatement saying “We know we have a really special place here”. Bravo to the Academy for Science and Design for proving, yet again, the value and excellence of charters.

AT 20TH ANNIVERSARY CHARTERS GOING STRONG IN UTAH. Charter schools in Utah just celebrated their 20th anniversary and are thriving in the Beehive state. This is one place where district and charter schools have a symbiotic relationship, helping each other get better through competition. As one charter President puts it “Competition has been a fabulous thing because everybody had to step it up. Our local school districts step it up; we constantly step it up. I think it’s a win-win situation for the students”. Hmm, a “win-win” for students. Are you listening, union bosses?

MATH CHALLENGED IN FLORIDA. We’re not trying to be snarky, but charter-choice critics in Florida really need some remedial math help. A hyperbole and hysterics filled report from – you guessed it – the Florida Education Association claims that charter & private schools will cost other public schools nearly $1 billion in the next five years. In the words of Colonel Sherman Potter, horse hockey. The facts – inconvenient as they may be for educrats and their friends, are here and here. Spoiler alert – Florida spends about $10,300 per pupil in traditional public schools while the state pays $7,300 per charter pupil. Nice round numbers. Easy to understand. Unless you’re purposefully myopic.

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Bernie Sanders Attacks Charters!

May 18, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

Dear Charter School Friends,

What a crazy thing - the Friday of National Charter Schools Week, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says that as president he will put an end to charter schools.

As my mother would have said, “the nerve!”

Sanders’ comments - yelling about transparency (which of course exists) or regulation (which charters have plenty of!) and accountability (which is the very essence of charters) - are almost as bad as when Randi Weingarten, AFT Union’s leader, called charters the polite second cousin of segregation.

We cannot let these people get away with this, friends!

While they have a tough job, it is a fact that traditional public schools are failing to educate more than 60% of students well in math, reading, history, civics, you name it. We also know that a charter school in any neighborhood puts pressure on the standard public schools around it to do better.

It drives unions crazy that charters do so well and are allowed to operate outside of their control, so the teachers unions have launched an all-out war on charter schools. Now they are spreading disinformation that charter schools are hurting kids in regular public schools, or are dangerously siphoning off public funding, or are in other ways “failures” — when nothing could be further from the truth.

When Sanders’ friends at the unions can’t shut down charters outright, they are trying to unionize them to control and redirect them from within. This is the major threat to charter schools in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C. – and more are on their way.

Even in the midst of this bullying and disinformation campaigns, polls show a majority of the general public favor education choice, including when it comes in the form of charter schools.

That’s why we must fight back harder and more strategically than ever. To get started, it’s simple:

Raise your voice on Facebook, on Twitter and in your own social networks. Say it out loud - we expect our leaders and politicians to help all students succeed and embrace all kinds of schools. Parents are a child’s first teacher - they should be able to determine what kind of education works best.
Write letters to the editor in your local paper. Get the facts on charters to share - at staging.edreform.com we have information and links to data from all education opportunity focused groups.
Your Congressman and Senators have to hear from you! Tell them you expect them to support all forms of education, that you will not tolerate these comments from Bernie Sanders or anyone else, and that your vote depends on their recognizing that charter schools work and are a critical part of education today and in the future.

These three simple things - from tens of thousands of people - will go a long way to putting the establishment on notice that the charter school movement and its supporters across the EdReform landscape will not tolerate charter school bashing anymore.Let us know if you have other ideas. We’ll be in touch soon. Thank you so much for the important work you do for children and America’s future.

Best,

Jeanne Allen, Founder & CEO

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Newswire – May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

HAPPY NATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOLS WEEK! Join us in celebrating the most impactful innovation in public education delivery since the country centralized schooling. Why should you? Read on and find out.

SQUARE 1 - The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has provided a road map to get you started on your journey to learn and expand great opportunities for kids. It won’t talk to you like Google Maps - but it will get you where you - and your kids - want to go.

SQUARE 2 - CER’s annual landing page is chock full of context, history and stories about what makes charter schools work and why millions of parents happily, when they have the option, choose charters.

VOX POPULI. A new poll of Democrat voters shows the unsurprising result that parents on the front lines of fighting for quality education choices for their kids strongly support charters. 58% of Black Democrats and 52% of Hispanic Democrats view charters favorably, vs. 31% and 30% viewing them unfavorably. Those most impacted by failing schools know the truth and speak it loud and clear. Hope that computes for our policymakers everywhere!

HALF A LOAF. The good news from the Volunteer State is that the Tennessee Legislature passed and Governor Bill Lee signed both a new choice and charter law. While modest, the legislation clears the path for more charters in the state. We would have much preferred including university in the mix, but CER gladly takes this half-loaf and promises to work with Governor Lee – whose strong support of charters last year played a major part in his victory- to fully authorize charters and choice at all levels.

CER, TEACHERS, PARENTS & UNIONS AGREE. A San Francisco teacher on leave fighting breast cancer might have to pay $203.16 per day to cover the cost of her replacement. That’s current California law, a statute that Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist must have had in mind when he said “The law is an ass.” All sides in the charter - choice debate agree with Mr. Bumble.

WHERE AMERICA’S DAY BEGINS. A new day for charters, parents and students is also beginning in Guam. A proposal for 7 new charter schools in the territory would bring the total to 10. With a total population of 162,000, if passed as expected the new legislation would put Guam near the top of charter schools per-capita.

WHAT A GOOD IDEA. We previously reported on the success of the IDEA charter school in Austin, Texas sending 100% of its graduates to college. Just down the road in the heart of the Rio Grande valley, McAllen Texas IDEA schools have another big idea - democratizing higher education – to make it routine for the area’s low-income Hispanic families to send their kids to college. Once again – freedom for educational innovation pays dividends for some of our most disadvantaged students.

THE MORE THE MERRIER. Charters in Beantown – that would be Boston for you non-East Coasters – have doubled the number of students they serve but continue to raise test scores and college entrance rates. The unofficial motto, and teaching method, of Boston charters is “no excuses”. With results like these none are needed.

BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME, applies to charter schools as well as fictional baseball parks. Flint, Michigan’s Cultural Center Academy which will focus on arts and sciences and will be located adjacent to the Flint Institute of Arts, Sloan Museum and Flint Institute of Music, has received more than twice as many applications as they have openings.

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The A+ Plan — A View from the Ground

May 13, 2019 By Shapiro Consulting

by Jeanne Allen
Foundation for Florida's Future
May 13, 2019

Nearly 25 years ago, I had the opportunity to witness the beginnings of historic education reform in Florida. In 1995, Jeb Bush, who would be governor a few years later, was laying the groundwork for an educational renaissance in Florida and for the nation.

On the morning of a speaking engagement that year, I disembarked a flight at Tallahassee International, tired from a long trip but ready to help solve Florida’s most pressing problems. To my surprise, Jeb was waiting for those who came to speak at his new organization’s big event.

Without hesitation, he walked up, thanked us for coming and walked us out to his car in the hourly lot. The entire drive he peppered me with questions about promising education reform efforts, the way his group might improve schools and the positive impact they could have on the state in general.

After the event, Jeb drove us back to the airport. As we enjoyed a beverage waiting for our return flight, he made a toast and a commitment to one day make the vision we outlined a reality for Floridians. It didn’t take him long to accomplish that vision.

When Jeb became governor in 1999, more than 60 percent of minority and low-income fourth graders in Florida couldn’t read at a basic level. Barely half of Florida’s high-school seniors were graduating.

In his first year as governor, Jeb’s top priority was to make educational opportunity a reality for every child, so he successfully fought to implement Florida’s landmark A+ Plan for Education. Jeb and other state leaders called on the Center for Education Reform to help them develop and adopt ideas and best practices for laws that improve schools, positively engage and involve parents and help students achieve — ideas and practice that eventually became dominant nationwide.

In the years since, Florida’s graduation rate has increased by 25 percent, reaching an all-time high. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Nation’s Report Card, Florida’s education laws created achievement gains in math and reading larger than anywhere else in the country, save Washington, D.C.

Jeb measured results, held schools accountable and exposed them to competition. Even as vested interests in the system protested, student achievement accelerated. Today, parents have choices among more than 600 exceptional charter schools and hundreds of private schools across the Sunshine State and district school scores are on a steady ascent. On top of that, higher education became a reality for far more students, improving life and economic conditions for individuals at all levels of life.

Sadly, after an initial period of rapid expansion, experimentation and impressive innovation across the country, charter growth has slowed over the past decade. During the current school year, it has nearly ground to a halt. It’s certainly not due to lack of demand — there are more than half a million students on charter school waiting lists around the country who can’t get in. Rather, it’s caused by deliberate efforts to write laws and regulations that disadvantage charter schools from the moment they open, discouraging the creation of schools that could be creating a big difference in students’ lives and hobbling the few schools that are able to open.

I’ve seen firsthand the possibilities of education reform when it is backed by clear vision and a strong will. Now it’s time for lawmakers across the country — including our nation’s capital — to follow Florida’s lead and adopt the principles of the A+ Plan. Our children and their families deserve it. Our nation needs it.

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