And this is incredibly important. But it takes, you know, it takes a couple of years or so to really see the improvements in these programs. So that's why, you know, I am really encouraging states to look at these programs, to start implementing them, to take some of the block grant money that we have proposed under our megagrants for the new budget to put that money towards these reading programs. And we've actually proposed to states that they reserve half of this money for numeracy and half of this money for literacy. And we'd like to see very much improvements across all states. (07:26–07:43)
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Encourages states to use proposed block grant money for reading programs.
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