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Michael Bennet: “One of the things that is certainly true of the change in the law is that we have devolved the responsibility for…”

On the recordJune 28, 2016
One of the things that is certainly true of the change in the law is that we have devolved the responsibility for implementation back to the States in a fairly significant way.
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

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Bennet discusses the shift of educational responsibility to states under new law.

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