Transcripts For CSPAN3 20170524 : vimarsana.com

Activity, their words, not mine, or practicing alternate gender identity, you may be denied admissions f this school which obviously is approved to discriminate against lgbt students in indiana, in f. Indiana applied for this federal funding, will you stand up that this school be open to all students . Thank you for your question with regard broadly to School Choice and its actually kind of narrow. I have one minute left. And i would like to refer back to your question about the comment about im sure you would. I want to ask particularly, is there a line for you on state flexibility . You are the backstop for students and the right to access a quality education. Would you in this case say were going to overrule and you cannot discriminate whether it be on sexual orientation, race, special needs, in our Voucher Program. Will that be a guarantee from you for our students . For states who have programs that allow for parents to make choices, they set up the rules around that. So thats a no. Do you see any circumstance where the federal department of education under your leadership would say that a school was not qualified . What if they said were not accepting africanamerican students but that was okay with the state . Does the state trump. Do you see any situation where you would step in . Again, i think the office of civil rights and our title nine protections are broadly applicable across the board. But when it comes to parents making choices on behalf of this isnt about parents making choices. This is about use of federal dollars. Is there any situation . You would say to indiana that school cannot discriminate against lgbt students if you want to receive federal dollars . Or would you say the state has the flexibility in this situation . Yes or no . I they they continue to have flexibility. So if i understand your testimony, i want to make sure i get this right. There is no situation of discrimination or exclusion that if a state approved it for its Voucher Program that you would step in and say thats not how were going to use our federal dollars . Theres no situation if the state approved it that you would put the state flexibility own our students . Is that your testimony . I think a hypothetical in this case its not a hypothetical. This say real school applying for that receives dollars. The ladys time has expired. Im going to allow the secretary to answer. I go back to the bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their childrens schooling and education decisions. And too much children today are trapped in schools that dont work for them. We have to do Something Different. We have to do Something Different than continuing a top down one size fits all approach. And that is the focus. States and local communities are best equipped to make these decisions and framework on behalf of their states. Im shocked can you not come up with one example of discrimination that you would stand up for students. The heads of several local Law Enforcement agencies, they were briefing membersst Senate Homeland Security Committee on gangs and organized crime along u. S. Borders. This runs just short of two hours