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Dusty Johnson: “A majority of our school kids can't read at grade level.”

Featuring: Dusty Johnson, Republican | U.S. House, South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 30:22

They don't think we've had a statewide conversation about how are we going to have better opportunities for our kids 10 years from today than we have now. I mean, A majority of our school kids can't read at grade level. I'm not hearing a conversation about that. Our economy in this strait is shrinking at a time when the economies in most of the rest of the country are growing. (30:22–30:25)

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Asserts that most school children in South Dakota are not reading at grade level.

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