Yet for a fraction of the money, Mississippi is teaching its students to read at a higher level than ours. What a total failure. I'm Whitney Tilson, and I'm running for mayor because it doesn't have to be this way. I've spent the last 35 years innovating in education, first helping start, Teach for America, then helping charter schools grow to 150,000 students in New York City. And today, I want to innovate and improve all of our schools. I'm not a career politician, and I don't think like them. (00:35–00:46)
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