Ryan Walters: “It came through the federal Department of Education a lot of…”

“We can talk about that a little bit, too. But it comes about through the force of a teacher's union. And it's come about, and thank goodness for President Trump and secretary Linda McMahon, It came through the federal Department of Education a lot of times. and now we've seen them throttling that back, doing away with the federal Department of Education mandates. And so we're seeing a lot more of that power returning to states, returning to parents.” (20:24–20:28)

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