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David McCormick: “The growth in spending in education and how much of that…”

Featuring: David McCormick, Republican | U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Published | Video Starts at 26:38

And so this is a great way to bring equality of opportunity to a much broader group of people. And obviously the teachers unions have a monopoly on our education system today. I cite some of the statistics around The growth in spending in education and how much of that spending is going to teachers or kids versus how much of it's going to overhead administration. the military. We would have called that a tooth to tail problem where it got a lot more tail versus tooth. That's what happens when you have a monopoly. (26:38–26:46)

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Asserts that a significant portion of education spending goes to overhead rather than directly to teachers or students.

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