We could get $500 million into our classrooms tomorrow if we just cut bureaucracy in our state department of education, not to any crazy level. If our bureaucracy was merely the size of all of the surrounding states. The surrounding states. All the states that are surrounded in Colorado are able to get about 65% of their budget into the classroom. So teachers, school supplies, you know, the stuff that's actually occurring in the classroom. In Colorado, we only get 58% of our budget into the classroom. (47:25–47:33)
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