Suzanne Bonamici: “Private schools... can reject students based on their grades…”

“And also, as you heard my colleagues talk about school choice well, here's this. The school chooses, they choose. Public schools accept every child as they should. And Private schools... can reject students based on their grades or their behavior, their religion, if they're LGBTQI+, if they have a disability. meaning that the ultimate school choice belongs to the school. Now, my Republican colleagues like to say that public school schools are failing. That's what they say.” (16:26–17:19)

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