Michael Bennet
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"Michael Farrand Bennet" is an American businessman, lawyer, and U.S. Democratic Party/Democratic politician. He is the senior senator from Colorado. He became senior senator when Mark Udall was defeated in the 2014 election. Bennet previously worked as managing director for the The Anschutz Corporation/Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to then-Denver, Colorado/Denver mayor (and current Colorado Governor) John Hickenlooper, and the superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

Born in New Delhi, India, he is the son of Douglas J. Bennet, a former United States Department of State/State Department official and college president. In high school Bennet worked as a United States Senate Page/Senate page on Capitol Hill. After graduating from Wesleyan University he worked for Governor of Ohio/Ohio Governor Richard Celeste. He went on to receive his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. He worked as a law clerk and later as Counsel to the United States Deputy Attorney General/U.S. Deputy Attorney General in the Presidency of Bill Clinton/Clinton administration.

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Our goal was to not let them have any runs. We let them have one run and that's what you get. They're that good, they can strike so fast.

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What I came away with last week was a very strong sense that the kids had been marooned up there. They're in a place where opportunities continue to shrink and were going to continue to shrink and that creates a frame of reference for what it is possible to achieve. It begins to lower the standards of expectation for your life.

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It shouldn't take this to be able to have the conversation we're having. What you have in front of you is a confession on the part of this district that we can't provide an education at that school for the kids that are there today.

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We are excited about the opportunities the Toyota Family Literacy Program will bring to Denver. Strengthening the literacy skills of the entire family is bound to produce results among our students. The additional resources provided to make this program available are much appreciated as is the network of educational, nonprofit and corporate organizations that makes this possible.

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