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Tom Tiffany: “We have about seven in 10 fourth graders that cannot read at…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Published | Video Starts at 00:42

It was always in the top five for, like, ACT scores, and now we have slipped out of the top 10, and we've fallen so far that we're now behind Mississippi. So We have about seven in 10 fourth graders that cannot read at grade level. It's no longer just a Milwaukee problem. It's become a statewide problem. And education has really been in free fall. (00:42–00:46)

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Asserts that approximately 70% of Wisconsin fourth graders cannot read at grade level.

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