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by David Kurtz
08.12.15 | 2:44 pm

It started as a dispute over the AP American history curriculum, but a Colorado school board recall is shaping up as a proxy fight for national groups, including the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, over a whole range of contemporary public education flash points.

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