… of the things that he has done and the charge that he's given me, you know, to return education to the states and get that bureaucracy out of Washington, because When he came into office and we saw what the NAEP scores, which is the nation's report card, what they reported was that we were, like, near the bottom compared to the world. Heartbreaking. And we have 12th graders and 8th graders that are reading at 30% proficiency now. They can read words on a page, but they don't have comprehension. (14:05–14:17)
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Asserts that NAEP scores showed the U.S. near the bottom globally when Trump took office.
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