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Brian Schatz: “We want to make $9 billion worth of cuts. We think this in the best interest of public education and private education…”

On the recordJune 5, 2017
We want to make $9 billion worth of cuts. We think this in the best interest of public education and private education, because we think the Federal Government should play less of a role, and the burden should shift to the private sector and to local DOEs.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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Senator Schatz critiques the rationale behind proposed education budget cuts.

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