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Ron Johnson: “Prior to the Department of Education, according to Dr…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Chairman Johnson's full remarks at HSGAC hearing on education and student achievement

Published | Video Starts at 12:44

But again, we have to really take a look at how much money the federal government's expended. What type of mandates, what type of control do they put over the system when Prior to the Department of Education, according to Dr. Vetter's testimony, things certainly weren't worse, if anything, potentially a little bit better. And we had a state run system that was actually working pretty well. I'd kind of like you to address just that basic, I guess, premise from Dr. Vetter's testimony. (12:44–12:53)

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Asserts that higher education conditions were potentially better before the establishment of the Department of Education.

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