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Summer Lee: “They're dismantling Department of Ed using the same states…”

Featuring: Summer Lee, Democratic | U.S. House Pennsylvania, District 12

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Published | Video Starts at 04:10

And so, unfortunately, our students are missing out. Thank you. I just want to say that they're using the same playbook that they've used for decades. They're dismantling Department of Ed using the same states rights argument used by the massive resistance to desegregation. Very quickly in your testimony, you talked about how far we are still from realizing the promise of Brown and how this administration actually moved in the way. (04:10–04:17)

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Asserts that there is an effort to dismantle the Department of Education using states' rights arguments similar to those used against desegregation.

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