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We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Accomplish Bureaucracy Creating Federal Goals Money New Our Own States Taxpayers

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We'll be examining and auditing and reviewing all of the programs of the department and really figuring out what is the core mission and how can the federal department of education really support and enhance the role of the departments in the states.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Core Department Departments Education Enhance Examining Federal Figuring How Mission Out Programs Really Reviewing Role States Support

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Federal law must be followed where federal dollars are in play.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Dollars Federal Followed Law Must Play Where

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When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Allowed Area Around Been Ensuring Environments Federal Federal Government Get Girl Government Had Important Involved Kind Know Mean Play Points Protecting Role Safe Same Schools Segregated Some Sports Students Teams Them Time Were You

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President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Agency Answer Bigger Bureaucracy Control Federal Know Listening Local Mandates Nation Nor Our Parents Potential Students Teachers Tougher Trump Washington

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The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

~Bill Bennett

Topics: Amount Dog Education Federal Grants Happens Higher Higher Education Increase Level Loans More Never Particularly Price Put Raise Rises Student Student Loans Tail You

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State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Claims Compensation Federal File Illegal Laws Protect Refuse Something State Those Who Workers

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The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Administration Advantage Allowed Bridge Every Federal Four Highway Inspection Instead Loophole Normally Regulations Required States Take Take Advantage Two Years

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Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Agencies Between Bridges Federal Government Inspection More Nearly Own Owned Records Some Than Two U.s. Government Worst Years

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Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Bridge Bridges Cause Collapse Design Entire Failure Fallen Federal Forbid Inspection Kind Lack Like Part Regulations Single

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