And that funding will continue to come. As I said, it came before there was a Department of education. Title 1 funding happened before there was a Department of Education. And Since the Department of Education has been established, we've spent $3 trillion to watch our test scores continue to go down. We. We are clearly doing something wrong. And the President has made it very clear that he believes the best education is that that's closest to the child. (02:13–02:20)
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Asserts that $3 trillion has been spent since the Department of Education was established, with declining test scores.
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