Rahm Emanuel

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Making Sense with Sam Harris · #470 — Democrats at a Crossroads · 13 Apr 2026 podcast

One is some people don't like the accountability part, the testing.

As one principal in Hattiesburg told me, you need those tests to help improve what you're going to do, not only for that student, but for the next class, the second grades coming into third grade.

You can't be scared of accountability and standards.

I want to come back to that in a second.

On the other side, which is Mississippi did not abandon their public schools with some other fancy thing called vouchers.

They invested in their public schools.

It was all started, by the way, by

Mr. Barksdale from Netscape, and he came from Mississippi, put his money into it, put the first $200 million.

So public schools were supported with public resources and accountability came with those resources.

Around the country, Republicans are advocating a way to abandon public schools and Democrats advocated and succeeded in abandoning standards and our kids are falling through the cracks.

Yeah.

We're at a 30-year low.

50% of our kids can't read at grade level.

I don't know what makes you think fourth and fifth grade are going to be okay.

If they're third grade, they're failing.

And nobody seems to think this is worth worrying about.

Now, there are other reforms along the way.

Every place that has adopted the whole program, not just science and reading, the support for teachers and the support for students with standards of attachment, as I said, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee being the most

kind of comprehensive in adopting the Mississippi model, all seeing rapid increases in reading scores.

Democrats, getting back to the science of reading or the accountability, thought that leave no child behind under President Bush, they were teaching to the test rather than using the test as a measure of success or failure or improvement.

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