Brother, there's something else that we did. We, we needed to invest more, especially in hiring and retaining the best teachers, which is why We gave teachers a 4.4 billion dollar teacher pay raise. Even if we have the best teachers in America, it wouldn't mean a whole lot if we had the worst curriculum in America. And so we took action this past session to clean up our curriculum. (22:51–22:57)
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