And what would you do to address this problem? Well, just to give you the analytics, there are 100,000 less students. 1/3 every day are truant. That means they don't even come to school. Two thirds [of students] don't read at fourth grade grade level. They can't write at fourth grade grade level. Two thirds they can't do math at fourth grade grade level. It's like, that's fourth grade. (06:43–06:48)
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Asserts that two-thirds of New York City students do not read at a fourth-grade level.
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