Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards promised a Pittsburgh audience Tuesday night he would fight to close the gap between rich and poor schools.
"We've got two public school systems in America. We've got one for those who live in wealthy suburban areas and one for everybody else," Edwards said at the Hill House Association in the Hill District.
"We have got to build one public school system" to give all students equal opportunity for education, Edwards said to applause from a crowd of about 250.
The education theme was an expansion of the anti-poverty message the former U.S. senator from North Carolina has pounded during his "Road to One America Tour," an eight-state swing that began Sunday in New Orleans and ends today in rural Kentucky.
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