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Ron DeSantis: “We created a fund only could be used for teacher pay.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 26:52

We do a lot of it, but we send the money down and then the school district spends it. And I'm like, well, wait a minute, why is that not going to teachers? Because people talk about teachers. So We created a fund only could be used for teacher pay. That's the only thing it could be used for. And I think what happened was we sent it and a lot of school districts, fine, they used our money. (26:52–26:56)

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Asserts the creation of a fund in Florida's budget specifically for teacher pay.

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