When you talk about our African American population of students, you could line up the same 10 children, and eight Seven out of ten children cannot read or cannot read on level. And two of them would go here and say, that I could. And this board desperately needs a literacy specialist teacher who has been in a literacy classroom for 18 … (44:13–44:27)
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Asserts that 70% of children cannot read or read on level.
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