Early childhood education, of course, is very, very important to the governor. I want to give a brief outline of his leadership in education in general. Last year, with the governor's leadership, the Texas legislature appropriated $8.5 billion in new money to public education system. That's unprecedented. There had never been anything like that. A lot of a significant part of that money was targeted toward early Childhood education. (09:34–09:47)
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