And if we aren't giving them the very best opportunity to do that, we will continue to fail them. And we will see these scores. We've spent $3 trillion since the Department of Education was established in 1980 to see our scores continue to decline. And in my confirmation hearing, one of the, one of the senators asked me, you know, about taking away the department. (08:46–08:55)
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