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Bernie Sanders: “If you have a kid with a severe disability, I'm not quite…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Vermont Congressional Delegation Telephone Town Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:23:49

Let me just reiterate what Becker and Peter have said. If you stop federal funding for education, it will mean higher property taxes. It means If you have a kid with a severe disability, I'm not quite sure what you can do because public schools will not be required or able to take care of that child [if federal funding for education stops]. Low income communities will not get Title 1 money, which is keeping them afloat and enable them to hire the teachers that they need. (1:23:49–1:24:01)

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Asserts that stopping federal funding for education will impact the ability of public schools to care for children with severe disabilities.

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