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Linda McMahon: “The invitation for the waiver went to every single state…”

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 10:21

Can you talk about how the waivers like the one Iowa was just granted, sort of quite into that. And are you encouraging Rhode island or other states to take up similar waivers to consolidate or Well, that The invitation for the waiver went to every single state, you know, from my office. And it was for a waiver to consolidate some of the grant streams that had come so that they could administer them better in a block grant. (10:21–10:28)

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Asserts that every state was invited to apply for a waiver to consolidate grant streams.

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