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Ryan Walters: “We can have a 100% graduation rate tomorrow. Lower the…”

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Published April 1, 2026 | Video Starts at 41:11

So you just lower the goals so that you can show that your scores are high. Hey, look, guess what? We can have 100. I used to tell people this. We can have a 100% graduation rate tomorrow. Lower the standards dramatically. Right? Everybody graduates. We can be Oprah here. Did that do anybody any good? It looks good on a press release. No, it did incredible harm. It did incredible harm. (41:11)

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“The teachers unions exert so much control... They spent hundreds of million dollars for Kamala Harris.”
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“Hundreds of millions of dollars, taxpayer dollars, are being funneled through a teacher's union.”
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“40% of all dues from their affiliates go right up to the national organization.”
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“I left the system to make a bigger impact in fighting the teachers unions that were fighting us every step of the way.”
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“The left decided to weaponize our education system to say we control what young people think.”
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“We could have a 100% graduation rate tomorrow. Lower the standards dramatically, right? Everybody graduates.”
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“We were fought not only by left wing activists, but a teacher's union that is a national operation that would funnel millions of dollars…”
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“Our appropriations chair for education, guess what? They're the teachers union member of the year. Every year.”
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“States today... allow a school district to automatically deduct from a teacher's paycheck union dues.”
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“Washington state... is blocking my organization and other organizations just from emailing teachers.”
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“The Supreme Court said you don't have to join a union to be a public school teacher.”
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“This is an award-winning book by one of the biggest publishers in the country that's being pushed in every classroom.”
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“The left decided to weaponize our education system.”
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“It's coming about through curriculum, it's coming about through textbooks, it's coming about through our teacher trainings.”
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“It came through the federal Department of Education a lot of times.”
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“Now we've seen them throttling that back, doing away with the federal Department of Education mandates.”
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“We're seeing a lot more of that power returning to states, returning to parents.”
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“Most of the textbook publishers are left wing owned organizations that have an agenda.”
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“Florida's got some great [education] standards. Texas is about to pass some great ones.”
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“In Florida, the teachers union just sued the DeSantis administration saying we don't have to show our syllabuses to parents.”
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“I'm at an organization now, we represent good teachers, good conservative teachers.”
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“We know how to teach reading. We've known how to teach reading a long time.”
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“We literally used to have those little cassette tapes hooked on phonics that said, hey, look phonetically you understand these key syllable…”
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“The scores don't lie.”
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“There's no accountability in academia.”
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“When whole language came out, they all leaped on it, they all jumped all over it.”
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“What we've done for all of these years has actually produced reading again, when done with fidelity. Very well.”
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“Teachers unions, elected officials, bureaucrats have decided the focus should be much more on all of the other things in education.”
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“They want to focus on all the other things. So it's kind of this distraction game.”
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“Even when they miss the mark dramatically, if the standards have been lowered so much, it doesn't look as bad.”
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“Teachers in California are taking [the PRISM] course which again is putting them through that type of training.”
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“Gavin Newsom did kind of let the cat out of the bag. A few weeks later he started talking more about it publicly.”
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“We do not want to see them pushing an agenda. And that's the way they've been trained is here's how you push an agenda.”
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“It's about pushing our value set, which is Marxism, on the next generation.”
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“We will only push and advocate for in the most aggressive fashion to push left wing activism all the way down from kindergarten to high…”
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“We have told young men, young boys, when they're in school that there's toxic masculinity.”
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“You're told that men and women are fluid. There's no differences.”
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“There's a reason why we used to have young men that were prominent in the Boy Scouts and working in shop classes.”
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“You're seeing young men that have been preached at about toxic masculinity that have been in a system that has really made them feel, I…”
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“Don't give up on the school system. Push back, fight against the things that you see that are doing these things.”
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“A lot of these institutions, even if we win, even if we fix them dramatically, that's going to take time.”
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“You got to make sure that what we're doing is guiding young people with truth, with honesty, getting them back to faith.”
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“What you've seen from the left today is they have scared that out of so much of society that they don't have as many examples today.”
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