Ryan Walters: “States should do what we see so many red states doing. Give…”

“And so what you see here is a situation where D.C. bureaucrats are controlling our education system through federal dollars, through federal strings. President Trump is 100% right. Eliminate the federal Department of Education, bring education back to the states. And States should do what we see so many red states doing. Give power back to the parents through school choice, through transparency, through accountability. That's when you begin to see education really make a turnaround, when the families are back in charge of the educational product. Well said. Thank you.” (15:10–15:18)

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