Tim Walberg: “Chicago Public Schools, for instance, there was a graph that…”

“Of course, we saw the NAEP scores come out that very day, and I made comment on that. Of the regression that we've seen, Chicago Public Schools, for instance, there was a graph that we had that showed the amount of money increased between 2013 and 2024 as being 97% increase. And yet the decline in academics, specifically in reading and arithmetic, dropped to as much as 73% below grade. Wow. That shows that something's missing. We're putting money into the system.” (05:25–05:38)

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