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Jay Collins: “Our investment in teachers, $5 billion invested.”

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Governor DeSantis Announces Expansion of Success Academy Charter Schools to Florida

Published | Video Starts at 21:37

You heard the stats, you heard the numbers. They're incredible. But what I want to talk about is our investment in education, our investment in solving problems, but Our investment in teachers, $5 billion invested. That's amazing. It is. We have to keep that up. We know that our economy and everything moving forward really is built off of what we teach our kids. (21:37–21:42)

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Asserts that Florida has invested $5 billion in teachers.

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