The Trump administration is looking to remove more regulations and strings that are attached so that teachers can have better control of their classroom classrooms and they can focus on learning. They can return to the science of reading and teach phonetically students, you know, who will learn better and faster how to read. Those are the kinds of things we need to focus on in our classroom to bring those reading grades up as well as our numeracy grades, when we see across 12th, 8th grade, 4th grade levels, as you mentioned, Joe, are down 30, 20%. (03:46–03:56)
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