Scott Walker: “The longer things were shut down, the worse those kids were.”

“She was so upset at what the union bosses, not the everyday teachers, but the union bosses, were doing to kids and families by prolonging the shutdown. And we now know the data bears this out, that The longer things were shut down, the worse those kids were. And across America, not the worst they were, but those were the worst cases, were kids in large urban school districts who were already behind in the first place.” (04:12–04:16)

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