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Andy Levin: “President Trump and Secretary DeVos, just last week, claimed school choice is the civil rights cause of our time, and…”

On the recordJune 21, 2020
President Trump and Secretary DeVos, just last week, claimed school choice is the civil rights cause of our time, and that is just honestly comical, but it is unsurprising because, in Michigan, we know that school choice causes segregation in our time.
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Andy Levin
Michigan

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Levin criticizes the claim that school choice is a civil rights issue, linking it to segregation.

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