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Linda McMahon: “Scores have continued to decline since the Department of…”

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

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Video: U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks on effects of Trump Administration on

Published | Video Starts at 11:00

And so I'm just happy to have the support of Congress and a lot of the things and the understanding from Congress, you know, that we have to change this paradigm. We have to look at it differently because we Scores have continued to decline since the Department of Education was stood up. We've seen scores continue to decline. Every now and then, a little leveling, a little blip on balance. So the scores have gone like this. Children cannot read. They cannot write. (11:00–11:03)

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Asserts that educational scores have generally declined since the Department of Education was established.

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