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Linda McMahon: “That's been set up since, I think, 1965. That was in place…”

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

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Secretary of Education: Linda McMahon | Sage Steele Show | EP 75

Published | Video Starts at 1:03:43

Now, that doesn't mean that congressional funding, like the Title 1 funding, the IDEA funding, which is for our students with special needs, that'll continue to flow. That's been set up since, I think, 1965. That was in place before there was a Department of education in 1980. So those funds are going to continue to flow to states, and states should not worry about that. That's appropriated money from Congress, how it flows through a different agency or whatever, it will still, that money will get there. (1:03:43–1:03:51)

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