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Linda McMahon: “In the state of Tennessee, for every dollar that goes into…”

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

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Buckley Institute Speaker Series: The Roadmap for Restoring American Education

Published | Video Starts at 11:35

The bureaucracy of Washington is just a place that, you know, the rules and regulations just burden. They're too burdensome. There was a statistic from the state of Tennessee, the superintendent, education superintendent, who told me that In the state of Tennessee, for every dollar that goes into the classroom, 47 cents is spent on regulatory compliance. So I want to get that regulation out of the way. Let's let that money go to teacher salaries for, you know, for improving education, you know, within the states. (11:35–11:43)

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Asserts that 47 cents of every dollar in Tennessee education is spent on regulatory compliance.

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