The New York Times said in 2019, blue states had better average test scores than red states after adjusting for demographics. Now red states are mostly ahead. That's the New York Times. And so what happened on this legislation is I introduced legislation this week that takes the existing federal grants that go to education. There's a pretty big funding stream from the federal government to states for education. And the reading funds, the legislation I introduced said if you want to get those reading … (19:14–19:20)
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