I'm going through changes right now, by the way, as my oldest is preparing to leave me for college in another year. But what I can say is, is that with all that we're doing at the local level, The people of Chicago are owed $1.6 billion from the state of Illinois. That's their calculation. And so I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that we don't have cuts to the classroom, because that is really the alternative … (32:15–32:27)
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