Rahm Emanuel

Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee replicated it and all seeing massive increases in reading scores.

One, it was a mandate statewide.

You couldn't opt in or out.

This was required.

Every teacher got retaught on the phonics or science of reading.

They got coaches for each school to keep the teachers and the principal focused and trained constantly.

Third, kids going all the way back to kindergarten,

In first grade, were prepped for their third grade reading test.

They got three times to pass at the kids.

If they didn't, they were held back.

So there were standards.

There was accountability.

There was support if kids were showing challenges.

They got extra tutoring time.

Each child got, I think, I'm doing this by memory, an hour and 15 minutes minimum every day on reading.

They went from 49th in Mississippi on reading scores across the country to 9th.

And if you account for demographics, they're beating Massachusetts now.

So with a result like that, what's controversial about this project?

Well, there's a professor, call it 25 years ago out of Columbia University, who taught people, got a lot of school districts to go into what the art of reading, not the science.

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