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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a particular kind of law that changes nothing overnight. The classrooms look the same the morning after it passes. The teachers haven’t changed. The children getting on buses are the same children who got on buses yesterday. But something has shifted underneath: what was once a promise has […]\n\nThe post A new law in Zambia makes free education much harder for future governments to take away first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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