“My story is pretty simple: I’m a regular guy with a big job,” said Boehner, a former chairman of the House Education & the Workforce Committee. “I’ve got 11 brothers and sisters, grew up working at my dad’s bar. And my parents sent all 12 of us to Catholic schools – I don’t know how they managed it, but I owe everything to that opportunity.”
Boehner said he wanted to help make sure every student has the same chance he did, adding that “ because education is the great equalizer in America – it can lift up kids who would slip through the cracks.”
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