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Linda McMahon: “Before there was a Department of Education, this funding…”

Featuring: Linda McMahon, Republican | Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education | National

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U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon takes reporters' questions during Rhode Island visit

Published | Video Starts at 02:10

You know, these grants and this funding comes in the law and there are require and accountability that must be maintained. So Before there was a Department of Education, this funding, the Title I funding still came through, idea funding still came through. The laws have not changed and the accountabilities have not changed for these laws, regardless of who is having the oversight and looking at this. (02:10–02:18)

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Asserts that Title I and IDEA funding existed before the Department of Education.

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