Moore Claims DoE Devolution To 'Partisan' Governors ‘Would Discriminate Against Certain Communities’

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During a House Democratic press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) discussed her concerns for upholding the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

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00:00Thank you, I'm the clean up woman, Gwen Moore from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

00:08Just let me say a question that wasn't answered with regard to what will happen to student

00:13loans.

00:14The secretary said that she had talked to the treasury secretary so that they were going

00:20to turn that over to the treasury or to commerce with a focus on collecting debt.

00:29That was the focus.

00:30I don't know about the administration of future loans.

00:35I also want to address questions that have, you know, about devolution.

00:43We asked many questions about how you can devolve monies to the state, however you do

00:50that, block, grant it, whatever.

00:52But how can you devolve the responsibilities and the authorities under the Civil Rights

01:00Acts to states?

01:03And we pointed out that there would be partisan governors who would receive this devolution,

01:13and as many people have pointed out already, that they would discriminate against certain

01:18communities and would be allowed to do it.

01:21In fact, the Title 1, Title 6, Title 9 were all put into place.

01:28The history of that is that people, particularly black kids, could not get justice on the local

01:37level and we find that that is still true.

01:40What would I say to the employees who are there?

01:43I would commend to them the words of John Lewis, don't give up, don't give out, don't

01:50give in.

01:51I would also commend to them the words of Tim Schneider, who's written a lot of books,

01:58and one I would quote from On Tyranny, Chapter 1, and that is don't surrender in advance.

02:06Just like you've heard from all these leaders, the Department of Education is a statutory,

02:12it's a law put in place by Title 1, Title 1 of the Constitution, and it will remain

02:20there until we decide that it should not exist.

Moore Claims DoE Devolution To 'Partisan' Governors ‘Would Discriminate Against Certain Communities’

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