Whitney Tilson: “Mississippi has, in the last 20 quarter century roughly has…”

“We should be able to easily replace the school leader, shake up the team. It's interesting. I've been studying Mississippi recently and so I'm not strictly about charters. Mississippi has, in the last 20 quarter century roughly has soared past New York. And Mississippi is the poorest state in the country. Spends 12,000 bucks a kid. We're spending approximately 40,000 bucks a kid.” (08:24–08:31)

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