But again, we have to really take a look at how much money the federal government's expended. What type of mandates, what type of control do they put over the system when Prior to the Department of Education, according to Dr. Vetter's testimony, things certainly weren't worse, if anything, potentially a little bit better. And we had a state run system that was actually working pretty well. I'd kind of like you to address just that basic, I guess, premise from Dr. Vetter's testimony. (12:44–12:53)
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