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Jon Husted: “If children were trapped in chronically failing schools…”

Featuring: Jon Husted, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

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Published | Video Starts at 01:37

And I can tell you as a. When I started in my elected career, I was a green state legislator in the state of Ohio who had this strange notion that If children were trapped in chronically failing schools, they should have the opportunity to go somewhere else. And that I thought, who could be against that? And I quickly found out, well, there were a lot of people who were against that. Powerful people, powerful institutions. (01:37–01:54)

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Asserts that children in failing schools should have the option to attend different schools.

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