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Donald Trump: “We want federal education dollars to follow the student…”

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Donald Trump campaigning in Milwaukee

Published | Video Starts at 44:04

That's possible. But no, they had a lot to do with me. I will tell you, I have great respect for teachers at a level that few people would understand. We want federal education dollars to follow the student rather than propping up a bloated and radical bureaucracy in Washington DC, which is what we're doing now. Ultimately, we want to close the federal department of Education and we're going to do that, and we're going to move it all back into our states. (44:04–44:14)

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Asserts that federal education dollars should follow the student instead of supporting a bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.

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