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Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Trenton
New Jersey
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