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On the recordMarch 26, 2014
Senator Murray, Senator Sanders, myself and Senator Schatz have legislation that I hope will take a look at it in the context of HEA reauthorization that will give you and give the Department of Education some new tools with which to try to hold these schools accountable when we're making decisions on how to allocate $140 billion a year.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussion of proposed legislation for better accountability in education funding.

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