Like, oh my gosh, the Republicans, they allowed a increase to special ed funding in this last bill. And so it can sound really great. The reality is that is a small piece of the puzzle. In this last budget, the Republicans, for the first time in something like 17 years, something like that, they didn't allow any general school aid monies to go into the bill. So nothing additional. So when you have inflation, right, year after year after year, we have inflation to costs like heating the school buildings, gassing up the buses, paying for … (10:46–11:04)
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Asserts that no general school aid was included in the budget for the first time in approximately 17 years.
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