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I think, importantly, that flexibility at the State and local level would really allow those closest to the students to target those resources.

Reading opens kids' minds and expands their world. Literacy is the foundation of learning and it's the starting point on the pathway to the American dream.

There are way too many families that don't have that choice and we continue to consign them in too many cases to schools that do not work for them.

More and more studies show that kids are actually stoppers of the disease and they don't get it and transmit it themselves. So we should be in a posture of -- the default should be getting back to school kids in-person, in the classroom.