August 31, 2005

Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon, by phone, discusses the federal education agency's efforts to aid gulf state schools following hurricane Katrina.

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Transcript: Education is going to be a long-term issue. It's going to be something that's not going to be a quick fix. These children will likely, many of them, attend school not only in districts remote from their home district, but in states remote from their home district.

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Transcript: One thing that will help these states more, as much as anything, is to not have to deal with the bureaucracy of getting this relief. So from the United States Department of Education's perspective, no red tape.

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