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Burgess Owens: “America [is] spending more per student than almost any other…”

Featuring: Burgess Owens, Republican | U.S. House Utah, District 4

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The Nation's Report Card and Returning Education to the States

Published | Video Starts at 00:19

32% are not proficient in reading. Math scores are at their lowest level since 2005. Reading scores at the lowest level since 1992. That's despite America [is] spending more per student than almost any other country. This is a crisis. It's a completely unacceptable. How did we get here? The answer is clear. Student last policies, student last unions. Democratic backed school closures that kept classrooms dark for nearly two years. (00:19–00:24)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends more per student compared to most other countries.

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