That alleviates the burden on local school boards to raise property taxes. That's. We're trying to make it easier on local property owners and easier on schools, and we've been doing that. I put two and a half billion dollars more into our schools. You know what the result of that, by the way, is, aside from alleviating the need to raise property taxes, is it's made it so that our eighth graders are now among the top five in the country in reading and math scores. (05:55–05:58)
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