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La Tonya Johnson: “In that school, there are no free and reduced lunch programs…”

Featuring: La Tonya Johnson, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 6

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Rep. La Tonya Johnson (D) Incumbent for 17th Assembly District

Published | Video Starts at 06:26

And just having her in the system, I know that there are a lot of things that even our better private schools need to work on. For example, In that school, there are no free and reduced lunch programs where the vast majority of children that are coming on choice are low income children. So in one way we're saying, yes, we'll educate your children, but we're not going to feed them. There are no transportation subsidies to that school. (06:26–06:36)

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Asserts that some choice schools lack free and reduced lunch programs for low-income students.

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