Can we design tests, can we design accountability measures that reward the kinds of teaching and the kinds of curriculum that excite kids and make kids excited to learn?
I want my kid to be in the 99th percentile in head circumference.
Boy, there's nothing more important than our kids' education. There really isn't.
I can't agree with you more on mental health, and I have a mental health in schools thing that we got some--about $55 million for.
Yet you say that you want to keep the yearly tests.
Here's one thing you said in your testimony, which I love. There is an old adage that states what gets measured gets done.
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we will just cover this for any of our people who are pre-diabetic. We'll pay for it because we will save $4 for every dollar we spend.
This is something that, with Senator Lugar, I put into the ACA, that we should be promoting this.
What it did was, pre-diabetes is people who have this blood--they're about to become diabetic if they don't do something about it.
This is going to hurt Minnesota.