And finally we have Secretary McMahon and President Trump who said, hey, we need to do something about this. We got it wrong in the late 70s, early 80s. And where did we go wrong? We took it out of the hands of the state and local government where it began, and we tried to federalize it inside Washington, D.C. well, you and I both know because we spent time in Washington, D.C. they have some of the worst schools in the country, and yet these lawmakers are trying to … (01:33–01:42)
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Asserts that education was federalized, moving control from state and local governments to Washington, D.C.
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