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- ↑ "Commissioner Office." Virgin Islands Department of Education. Retrieved on October 13, 2010. "Contact information: Government of the United States Virgin Islands, Department of Education, Office of the Commissioner, 1834 Kongens Gade, St. Thomas, V.I. 0080."
