What we're doing on spending, what we're doing on almost every single issue that you can name down the list that we're not dealing with, including literacy. You know, Our 8th graders last year couldn't read at the 8th grade by almost two thirds of those students. And so when you look at China teaching 8th graders quantum mechanics, we're teaching our kids, apparently not to read very well. We have some competitive issues, and small politics isn't going to solve that. (02:21–02:27)
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Asserts that nearly two-thirds of 8th graders could not read at the 8th-grade level last year.
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