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Randy Romanski: “In places like Arizona or Florida, public schools have been…”

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Congressman Mark Pocan Discusses Education and Labor with AFT President Randy Weingarten

Published | Video Starts at 36:15

It's now a push by billionaires. And basically it's a push to defund the public schools, to fragment the public school system. And what's the results? In places like Arizona or Florida, public schools have been defunded. and basically 70% of the people who get the voucher money have already sent their kids to private schools. Argue that's about education. Right. Clearly that's about redistribution of wealth upward. (36:15–36:27)

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Asserts that public schools in Arizona and Florida have experienced defunding.

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