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Dick Durbin: “Very few disabled children and very few programs for them in…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Sounds Alarm On The Trump Admin Upending Head Start & Continuing Attacks On Special Education

Published | Video Starts at 08:41

Absolutely. I will tell you, in 19 years of Catholic education, and I don't hold it against them because it's just an economic reality. Very few disabled children and very few programs for them in private schools. And so their only hope was a public education in the hopes they could come up with the resources to make it work. (08:41–08:48)

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Asserts that private schools have limited programs for disabled children.

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