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Gwen Moore: “Voucher schemes worsen the segregation of our schools.”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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House Democrats on Public Education and School Choice Vouchers

Published | Video Starts at 02:25

And we can tell you with our lived experience that it disproportionately benefits wealthy students who already attend private schools. And they SAP monies from our public schools, which disproportionately and especially hurts disabled students and rural students with disabilities. Voucher schemes worsen the segregation of our schools. And we saw the minute that Brown versus the Board of Education was passed in 1954, we immediately saw these white academies in the south that discriminated against African American attendance. (02:25–02:32)

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Asserts that voucher schemes contribute to increased school segregation.

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