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How cuts to Medicaid could affect kids in special education

Here's how GOP health care cuts could affect schoolchildren with disabilities.

05/22/2017

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How cuts to Medicaid could affect kids in special education

Clip: 5/22/2017 | 4m 57s

Here's how GOP health care cuts could affect schoolchildren with disabilities.

Special education, which is hugely reliant on Medicaid, is one factor that didn't get much attention in the debate over the Republican health care bill. If there are billions of dollars of cuts to Medicaid, how would it affect the millions of public school kids who receive special ed services? William Brangham talks to Sasha Pudelski of the American Association of School Administrators.

05/22/2017

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