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Bernie Sanders: “Low income communities will not get Title 1 money, which is…”

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

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Vermont Congressional Delegation Telephone Town Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:24:01

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. Low income communities will not get Title 1 money, which is keeping them afloat and enable them to hire the teachers that they need. So this idea of willy nilly just, oh, we're going to abolish the Department of Education really will lead to, I think Becca was saying, a movement toward the privatization … (1:24:01–1:24:10)

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Asserts that low-income communities rely on Title 1 funding to hire teachers.

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