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Mark Pocan: “When you take money out of the public school system to put…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan: Champion of the First Amendment

Published | Video Starts at 24:19

It's also to erode that public education system and to make it so bad that kids are forced into religious schools instead. Exactly. So When you take money out of the public school system to put to charter schools... many of the religious schools discriminate against gay and lesbian students and others. others. Two, they often don't have programs for students with disabilities. So they're discriminated against when they're doing all this, but that takes it directly out of the public schools. (24:19–24:30)

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Asserts that funding charter schools leads to discrimination in religious schools.

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