But what do you want him to do once he becomes chancellor? He's cut that budget. $41 billion. This is education. Wait, 100,000 less students. One third of the students are truants every day. Two thirds of the students who go to fourth grade can't read at grade level, write at grade level, do math at grade level. It all goes to the top. There are 13 deputy chancellors. Nobody knows who they are. 50 department heads at the Tweet courthouse, which is the old Tammany hall location, which makes sense for the bureaucrats there. (05:42–05:49)
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