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Deborah A. Gist has been Rhode Island's education commissioner since 2009. She had previously been the education chief in Washington, D.C.

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When students leave our high schools and they go to the community college, 70-75 percent of them have to pay to take remedial math.

— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, March 31st, 2013