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Mazie Hirono: “These universities and colleges serve minority students…”

Featuring: Mazie Hirono, Democratic | U.S. Senate Hawaii

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Standing Up For Our Students: One Year of Trump's RIFS at the Department of Education

Published | Video Starts at 04:05

So, most recently, 350 million was stripped from 800 institutions, universities all across the country. 800 institutions across the country, blue states, red states, just because These universities and colleges serve minority students. This is a program that supports minority serving. They're called minority serving institutions. So we know that the Trump regime will continue its attacks on the Department of Education, on federal workers, public schools, and the more than 50 million children across the country who rely on on these programs. (04:05–04:16)

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Asserts that the funding cut affects minority-serving institutions.

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