We have the beginning of school. We're spending $42,000 per public school pupil even though there's 100,000 less students. Two thirds of fourth graders cannot read, write or do math at grade levels. A third of the students don't even bother showing up for school. 200 schools that have less than 200 students, they won't conflate them. And it's really the union, the teachers union that runs the Department of Education. (03:24–03:28)
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Asserts that one-third of students are not attending school.
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