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Ted Cruz: “There is a literacy crisis.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 21:00

You go to school to learn to read, writing to arithmetic. Like, isn't that amazing that someone came up with that curriculum one day and then we just decided to abandon it? Right. Well, and There is a literacy crisis. The numbers of students coming out of school who can't read, who don't have the ability to read is staggering. I'm gonna give you some of the stats. (21:00–21:03)

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