Rahm Emanuel

On the subject of teaching reading, essentially.

Two teachers.

They have a minimum, I'm doing this by memory, but I think it's an hour and 15 minute per day for every child.

Second is as a child is going, if that individual child needs more support than the hour and 15 minutes every day, they get a tutor.

Now, one thing I will say is, and to their credit, and I met with Mr. Barksdale, the guy that created Netscape, that funded this whole thing.

I suppose structurally, there was no other option.

You couldn't kind of opt out.

This is what you were doing to get Mississippi money.

You had to do this.

So this was not like local control.

They went, no.

And second is...

they're honest with themselves.

They said, okay, we're doing really well, but we start to lose momentum in fourth and fifth grade.

So they're now setting up reading clinics to try to figure out how to keep the third grade momentum going.

There's also one element I left and everybody, some, a lot of people focus.

If you don't meet the standard after, I think it's three tests, you don't advance to fourth grade.

Now,

They don't just do, read and get done.

They do training, support for teachers, rewiring on phonics, keeping them top of their game.