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'Jena Six' Defendant Could Provide Example of the Benefit of School Choice
August 25, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives issued the following news release:

Jesse Ray Beard, the youngest member of the "Jena Six," is reportedly interested in spending a portion of his legal defense fund on private school tuition.

Beard and five other black students attending Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana are accused of beating a white student in a racially-charged December 2006 incident. The case received inter . . .

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