Whitney Tilson: “More than $40,000 a kid.”

“Me neither. So what are we spending it on? Not lunches, not facilities, not school supplies. This year, the city will spend $40 billion on schools. More than $40,000 a kid. Yet for a fraction of the money, Mississippi is teaching its students to read at a higher level than ours. What a total failure.” (00:20–00:23)

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