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Gilbert Gutknecht: “But the story gets twisted. The unfortunate thing is the story gets twisted somehow between what we are trying to do and…”

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
But the story gets twisted. The unfortunate thing is the story gets twisted somehow between what we are trying to do and as it goes through this cycle here and as it gets filtered through sometimes the dominant media culture out there that somehow if we decide to reduce the size of the bureaucracy, the educational bureaucracy, for example, to follow up your point, that if we vote to reduce the size of the educational bureaucracy then we are hurting kids, when in fact there is no real proof that what we are doing right now is helping kids. Test scores have gone down as we have increased the size of the educational bureaucracy here in Washington.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Discussing the impact of educational bureaucracy on student outcomes.

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