It's not going to affect public schools. But you're saying it will affect the funding? No, it will. Because if you think about it, this is the easiest way to explain it. You have a classroom of 22 students, and then five of them leave to a charter school or to a private school with their voucher. And now you have 17 kids in that classroom. So that's less money going into that classroom. Okay. Because those five kids left because now that average daily attendance that funds those schools is less money coming from the state. (43:44–43:55)
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