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Over half the kids drop out. that's an amazing turn around, 6,000 lives that otherwise would have been changed if they hadn't gotten that opportunity. we have seen this with our charter school movement. over almost half the kids in d.c. public schools are in charter schools and hernandez the outgoing chancellor said that helped incentivize change so that he have increased enrollment for the first time in years. in florida, the same thing. 100,000 kids and the tax program there and studies have shown that the kids who were left behind do better. so this is a way to lift all boats. >> interestin...

Choice. >> i have this conversation with the parents what about the schools, they are terrible. people say they are starved for funding. i looked up today since 1970, 200 percent increase to schools primary education, secondary education and basically no movement on test scores at all. it's not just about funding. >> no, it's not. you know, , you mentioned i was on the city council. we gave d.c. public schools $300 million, 10,000 fewer kids educating outputs went down. it's not about money. it's what you do about the money. great thing about school choice great thing to help kids where there ...

Public system and sends them to private companies. what's your response to that. >> that's not the case. we want to make public schools work for our kids. i envision america where all kids have access to equal quality education. getting kids in good schools today, particularly those who come from bad schools. helps lift all boats d.c., florida and other places, when the public school sees that there is a real threat to their monday nope police stick resistance they respond. >> boy haven't they. kevin, thank you for joining us. that was super interesting. i appreciate it. >> thank you. ♪ >> t...

That's an amazing turn around, 6,000 lives that otherwise would have been changed if they hadn't gotten that opportunity. we have seen this with our charter school movement. over almost half the kids in d.c. public schools are in charter schools and hernandez the outgoing chancellor said that helped incentivize change so that he have increased enrollment for the first time in years. in florida, the same thing. 100,000 kids and the tax program there and studies have shown that the kids who were left behind do better. so this is a way to lift all boats. >> interesting. in washington a woman call...

Choice. >> i have this conversation with the parents what about the schools, they are terrible. people say they are starved for funding. i looked up today since 1970, 200 percent increase to schools primary education, secondary education and basically no movement on test scores at all. it's not just about funding. >> no, it's not. you know, , you mentioned i was on the city council. we gave d.c. public schools $300 million, 10,000 fewer kids educating outputs went down. it's not about money. it's what you do about the money. great thing about school choice great thing to help kids where there ...