No business has invested more money -- or creativity -- in education than New England Electric Wire Corp.

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Several education initiatives, including a call for more money to hire new teachers and build or renovate schools and limiting class sizes to 18 students for first, second and third grades.

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We must ask how much good could be done if this money were dedicated to food, medicine, more cost-effective forms of education or establishing small businesses and other economic development.

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