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Annc: Coming up on Inside 
California Education...

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Lara: Ok guys, it's on! 
Perfect.

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Annc: Discover how a 
student-run thrift store at

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a San Diego school is 
outfitting teens with new

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threads...while also serving 
a greater mission of helping

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those in need.

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Mendoza: Which of the 
following groups was the new...

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Annc: See how at-risk 
students from a community

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school in Los Banos are 
defying expectations as they

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compete in the 
Academic Decathlon.

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Tony: What I love about 
this country is the promise

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that anybody can 
have an education.

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Annc: Meet California's 
newest Superintendent

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of Public Instruction 
Tony Thurmond.

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Student: She's about four, 
four and half months old

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Annc: And explore two school 
farms in the Central Valley,

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where students are growing 
food for school lunches.

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It's all next, on 
Inside California Education!

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Annc2: Funding for Inside 
California Education

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is made possible by:

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Since 1985, the 
California Lottery has

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raised more than $34 billion 
dollars in supplemental

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funding for California's 
11-hundred public school

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districts from kindergarten 
through college.

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That's approximately $211 
for each full-time student

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based on $1.7 billion 
contributed in

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fiscal year 2017-18.

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With caring teachers, 
committed administrators,

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and active parents, every 
public school student can

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realize their dreams.

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The California Lottery: 
Imagine the Possibilities.

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The Stuart Foundation: 
Improving life outcomes for

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young people through 
education

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♪♪♪

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Michael: These are rooms 
full of memories.

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Magical evenings like 
senior proms or

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trips to Disneyland.

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Clothing once cherished 
as the height of fashion.

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Or just an item outgrown.

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All now destined to 
serve a higher purpose.

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Michael: It's Wednesday 
afternoon at San Diego's

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Patrick Henry High School.

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Lara: OK guys, it's on! 
Perfect."

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Michael: With student 
volunteers right behind,

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teacher Lara Dickens is 
opening up two rooms

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packed with donated items.

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Welcome to the on-campus 
thrift store...

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where all proceeds go towards 
helping less fortunate students.

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Lara: When the parents found 
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students and foster 
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it all of a sudden became a 
huge community mission

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to make everyone's experience 
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meaningful, memorable, and 
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Michael: The thrift store 
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with just a single 
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Re-purposing used clothing 
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as a lesson about 
environmental awareness.

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Michael: But then members 
of the school's Interact

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Club...a kind of 
junior version of Rotary

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International...realized 
this would be a great way to

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raise money to 
help fellow students.

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With help from 
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staff, and students, the 
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Kella: The proceeds all go 
to benefit kids financially

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who may be struggling, so 
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Lyndsey: It just provides me 
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I just feel like helps my 
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grow at the same time.

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Glenda: Thomas, you're 
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and the jeans if we 
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Michael: It starts in 
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when special education teacher 
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Thomas, Darren 
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the tasks of sorting 
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before the store 
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Glenda says it's been a game 
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Glenda: It gives them a 
sense of accomplishment

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that they're doing something 
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academic class; this is 
giving them something,

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a skill they use to go 
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Darren: If they're worn 
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the Goodwill box.

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But if they're not 
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we'll put them 
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Kella: Come on into 
the thrift store!

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(Woo-hoo!) 
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Michael: Every item... 
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is priced at 
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Students can buy everything 
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prom suits and dresses.

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All the money raised, almost 
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helps pay for 
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even laptops for graduating 
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Proceeds also help buy 
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students who might not 
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They can approach 
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or Thrift Club student 
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discreetly 
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Lara: So we make sure 
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they can have deodorant, 
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there isn't anything 
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you from coming to 
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We hope that you 
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and thrive.

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Eliza: We want to make 
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the ability to be a 
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that no one feels excluded, 
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to participate in other 
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feel ostracized form 
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Michael: Even at a 
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like Patrick Henry... 
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twenty students could be 
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Once again, fellow students 
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food items to share.

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Eliza: The canned food is 
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at our high school right now 
that can't afford too much

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because they live in 
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so right now they might 
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Elizabeth: There are 
students who obviously need

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help, and so this 
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but it also gives students this 
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of pride that they're 
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Michael: Principal Elizabeth 
Gillingham says the thrift 
store helps erase the

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stigma or self-judgment 
students may feel when

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their families face 
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Elizabeth: So a student 
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'I bought this at the store 
and she's at the prom and

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his suit was a dollar 
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I think that's amazing.

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Cameraman: "Cute shirt.

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What'd that cost you?

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Student: One dollar!

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Cameraman: Can't beat 
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Student 1: Can't beat the price. 
Student 2: It's true.

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Student 1: He got this here 
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Lara: It's really beautiful 
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something because they 
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not because it's going 
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on their resume or 
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Michael: The idea of an 
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seem a bit unusual for 
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but the consensus at Patrick 
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far exceed the risks and 
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Elizabeth: I would say 
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a wonderful thing for 
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Their world is bigger than 
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to others is important.

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And it makes it cool 
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and I like that."

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Lara: I encourage 
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elementary schools, and high 
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share the wealth 
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Kella: Just talk to a 
teacher and get it started.

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Just get the whole school 
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fundraisers or have 
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and then it's just like 
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it keeps rolling.

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Lara: It's a wonderful 
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They're just 
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and I get a lot of 
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but, it's them.

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Mr. Mendoza: I will be there as 
your cheerleader.

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Go team Go team.

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Your coach but that 
will be my responsibility.

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Your responsibility will be 
to do all the hard work.'

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Annc: IN JUST A COUPLE DAYS 
THIS TEAM OF HIGH SCHOOL

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STUDENTS WILL BE COMPETING 
IN MERCED COUNTY'S

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ACADEMIC DECATHLON....

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AND IT'S ISABEL MENDOZA'S 
JOB TO BE SURE THESE KIDS

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ARE READY TO COMPETE.

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Isabel: But it's not so much 
what you are saying,

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it's how your saying it. 
how your presenting it.

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and are you 
believable enough?

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Isabel: I'm more 
guiding them.

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I'm helping them 
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can't do and I know many 
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want to do better.

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They want to try, but 
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because of their background.

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Rob: IT'S BECAUSE OF THEIR 
STRUGGLES AT A TRADITIONAL

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PUBLIC SCHOOL THAT THEY 
ARE NOW AT A

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COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

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Leslie: Each one of these 
kids has their own story.

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Each one has their own 
reason they're here.

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Rob: LESLIE JELEN IS 
THE PRINCIPAL AT VALLEY

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COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL 
IN LOS BANOS

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Leslie: We serve many 
different at risk youth.

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And this is a chance 
for them to get back on track

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and recover from 
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they've made.

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They don't have to be 
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Rob: ONE OF THE WAYS 
THE HIGH SCHOOL IS HOPING

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TO ACHIEVE THIS IS BY GIVING 
THEIR STUDENTS THE

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OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN 
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES,

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SUCH AS THE 
ACADEMIC DECATHLON.

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Isabel: Okay, number 39.

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This one asks how did you 
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for the Academic Decathlon?

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Leslie: So as far as I am aware 
of, we are the only county

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that has community schools 
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the Academic Decathlon.

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We have this small team that 
doesn't have a lot of the

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same supports and 
doesn't have as much time,

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but we're still 
there, we're still trying.

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Rob: THE ACADEMIC DECATHLON

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IS NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED.

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Proctor: The correct 
answer is: A.

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TEAMS OF STUDENTS 
DEMONSTRATE THEIR ACADEMIC

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STRENGTH BY COMPLETING 
SEVEN WRITTEN TESTS,

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WRITING AN ESSAY, DELIVERING 
A PREPARED AND

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AN IMPROMPTU SPEECH, 
AS WELL AS PARTICIPATING

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IN AN INTERVIEW.

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THE CONTEST CULMINATES IN 
WHAT'S CALLED

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A SUPER QUIZ - A JEOPARDY 
-STYLE SPEED TEST.

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Proctor: Pencils up.

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ALONG WITH THE MEDALS AND 
PLAQUES PRESENTED TO THE

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TOP TEAMS AND INDIVIDUALS, 
THE DECATHLON ALSO GIVES

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OUT THREE SCHOLARSHIPS 
TO EACH PARTICIPATING

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HIGH SCHOOL.

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Isabel: This academic 
decathlon is scary

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to many, and the hardest 
thing to convince them that

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you should be here.

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Amahd: Honestly at 
first I was like,

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"I don't even know why I'm 
doing this," and towards the

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end I kind of accepted it 
as like this was helping me,

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it's for my future.

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So when I kind of got that, 
I was like it's all good,

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just do it.

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Andrea: I would have never 
expected this three years

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ago, being a sophomore 
and getting all Fs and not

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getting any passing grades.

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I've been to four different 
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offered anything like this.

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at the same time.

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Rob: FOR FRANCCITA - IT'S 
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TIME PARTICIPATING IN 
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Franccita: And we 
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but he's still 
my best friend.

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Franccita: I attended the 
academic decathlon last year

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and won one gold medal in 
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in music.

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Rob: LIKE ANDREA, SHE 
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Franccita: Before this, I 
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graduated high school.

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Why's that?

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Cause I wasn't even trying.

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At one point I just gave up 
and it was really sad

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for a while.

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And a lot of my family were 
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I'm a smart kid, but I 
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was really bad.

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That's like the 
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Isabel: Kids like 
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are willing to push 
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Why wouldn't you 
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Student: I wasn't really sure 
what I wanted to do

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with my life, which 
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Isabel: They've got 
to find somebody that will

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give them that little boost 
and that's what I'm here

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for, that little boost.

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Nothing more.

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Isabel: We're 
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we got about 
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Work on your speeches.

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Tomorrow I want those things 
typed out because it's here

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now and we're going 
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Rob: AFTER MONTHS 
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HARD WORK - THE BIG DAY 
HAS FINALLY ARRIVED......

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Andrea: I'm in the 
academic decathlon now.

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Whatever brought us 
here, the circumstances,

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we're just trying to 
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Amahd: I feel like it's 
not just proving just

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for myself, but like 
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We're not bad kids and we 
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else does.

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Franccita: It means a lot to 
me that they helped me

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grow as a person, and 
definitely It's something

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I'm very grateful for.

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(Cheering) 
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(Cheering) 
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Isabel: it's not 
that I taught them to fly on

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their own.

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I helped them discover 
that they can fly.

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It's already in them, it's 
just they need to find

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that themselves.

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Annc: Still ahead on Inside 
California Education....

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Laura: Do you think a horse 
can catch up with a cow?

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All: Yes!

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Annc: Students in the 
Central Valley towns of

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Turlock and Ceres are 
getting hands-on experience

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at school farms..... 
learning everything from

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how to plant vegetables... 
to proper animal care.

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But first....let's get 
to know Tony Thurmond,

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California's brand new 
superintendent of schools.

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Tony: When I think about 
how education impacted

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me, you know, I had great 
teachers who always believed

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in me and, and they really 
imparted a message that if

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I believed in education that 
my life would be better

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than it started.

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I'm confident that it 
meant the difference for me

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between ending up in 
California State Prison

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and instead ending up

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as California State 
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Kristen: Tony Thurmond is 
California's newest

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Superintendent of 
Public Instruction,

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guiding education policy 
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six million students.

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He was inaugurated in 
January 2019 in front of a

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crowd at Sacramento's 
McClatchy High School.

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Tony: To which our 
children are entitled.

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Judge: I will not 
back down.

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Tony: I will not 
back down.

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(Applause)

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Steinberg: California is 
immensely lucky to have a

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talented, committed and 
savvy leader like Tony

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Thurmond leading the 
department of education

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and fighting for our youth.

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Welcome to Sacramento! 
Welcome everybody. . .

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Kristen: But, it wasn't an 
easy road to the office.

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Thurmond was in a contested 
and expensive race for the

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position against charter 
school executive

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Marshall Tuck... 
with the results too close

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to call for days 
after the election.

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Tony: My campaign for state 
Superintendent was certainly

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the toughest race that 
I've had in politics.

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And I've always 
had tough races.

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But I never lost faith.

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I always believe that if you 
put forward what your vision

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is for helping young people, 
that everything will work

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out the way 
it's supposed to.

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Lupita: What makes him well 
suited for this position is

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that he has a lived 
experience that's unique

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and unlike any other 
superintendent.

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He's Afro-Panamanian, he's 
lived in an experience in

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which he was orphaned, 
and he had to be raised

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by his cousin that he 
had never met.

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And so education um to 
him is very personal.

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Tony: My cousin raised me 
and she kept me out of the

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streets, and she 
kept me out of trouble.

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And she always made sure 
we had the best education

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we could possibly get.

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Tony: My mom was real sick, 
and my mom had cancer.

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And when I was six years 
old my mom lost her battle

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to cancer and my dad 
was not in the picture

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so I ended up growing 
up in Philadelphia.

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Kristen: Thurmond graduated 
from Temple University in

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Philadelphia before 
returning to the Bay Area,

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where he became 
a social worker.

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That lead to seats on the 
Richmond city council

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and school board, then 
the State Assembly,

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and finally, 
state Superintendent.

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Tony: I've been very 
fortunate um to be

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in a position to work 
with young people.

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To help them get 
a second chance,

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to help them get strong 
after school programs

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and mentoring programs.

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It's my mission, um, 
to serve young people.

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Kristen: Today, Thurmond 
is meeting with students at

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Valley High School in 
Sacramento involved with

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a program called 
Improve Your Tomorrow.

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student: So I showed 
up for the food,

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but then I started to 
realize the mission of the

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program was to get 
young men of color to

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and through college.

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Kristen: Over the 
next four years,

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Thurmond says he wants to 
focus on those students

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who are often too 
easily overlooked.

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He also wants to reform 
school budgets at a time

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when school districts 
like Sacramento are facing

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a budget crisis, and 
teachers are striking

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in cities across the state.

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Tony: California still is 
forty-first in the nation in

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per-people spending even 
though California is the

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fifth wealthiest 
economy in the world.

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We have to change that.

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We always say that 
kids are our future.

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We have to act like it 
and my top priority

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is increasing revenue 
for our schools,

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closing our achievement 
gap, closing our

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teacher shortage.

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How do you learn when you 
don't have a well-trained

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and qualified teacher at 
the head of every class?

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Kristen: These reforms 
are more than Thurmond's

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political platform... 
they're also personal.

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He has two daughters 
attending public schools.

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Tony: There are 
times when, um,

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I felt like if, if a teacher 
or a staff person is

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going to be so 
difficult to me, um,

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how are they going to treat 
other parents who don't

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know how to advocate 
for their children?

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And so we've got to work 
throughout the bureaucracy

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and the barriers that impact 
our educational systems.

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Lupita: He's not a 
figurehead.

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He's actually boots on the 
ground and he's rolling up

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his sleeves and he knows 
what's happening at the

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department and he wants 
to be helpful personally.

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Kristen: At the 
end of his term,

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Thurmond says he hopes 
to increase the state's

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per pupil spending... 
putting the state on trajectory

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to someday be first 
in the nation.

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Tony: I think there's so 
much more that we can do

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in this state and I'm excited 
that the voters are giving

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me the opportunity to do it.

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Annc: On average, states 
spend more than $12,000

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dollars in per pupil 
spending when adjusted

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for regional costs.

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Vermont has the highest per 
pupil spending in the nation

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at more than 
$20,000 dollars.

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Utah spends the least at 
about $7,000 dollars

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per student.

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In California, per pupil 
expenditures are a little

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over $9,000 dollars.

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Ken: Make sure you 
plant the plants so they are

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even with the soil.

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So you're just going 
to open the soil up,

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put it in and see how 
it is even and level.

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And then put the soil back 
and around.

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Christina: Agriculture is the 
biggest industry here

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in Stanislaus County.... 
where farms generate

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about $3 billion worth of 
commodities each year.

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So you'd think that kids 
from local schools would

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have plenty of 
exposure to the farm life.

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But school officials from 
the towns of Turlock and

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Ceres discovered - 
that was not always true.

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Ken: Almost all the kids 
in our program are actually

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coming from a 
suburban environment.

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Very, very few of our 
students are actually

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coming off of a farm.

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And they don't have any idea 
where their food comes from.

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We plant broccoli plants 
and they look at that,

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and they have no idea what a 
broccoli looks like

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growing in the field.

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Laura: We have some students 
that have never had,

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um, a farm experience.

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They've never planted 
something in the ground

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and been able to 
watch it grow.

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They've never been 
able to hold a chick,

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or pet a sheep or a goat.

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And, so, with 
bringing them out here,

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they actually get these 
experiences that they

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may not have otherwise.

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Christina: In the 
last several years,

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both the Turlock and 
Ceres school districts have

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invested significant time -- 
and money -- into creating

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real, working farms 
for their students.

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Turlock's efforts started 
in 2013 when the district

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bought 10 acres of 
land in the city.

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They've been slowly 
building it up since.

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Laura: We finally finished 
our swine facility just

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about three weeks ago.

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And, so, so now we have 
a swine facility that is

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up to industry standards.

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We've also been able to 
bring out our goats and

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sheep to the farm this year.

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They used to be housed, 
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We have about an 
acre of fruit trees,

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and we have about an 
acre of vegetables.

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We are starting to plant 
now with the first graders,

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and they will continue to 
plant with about 800

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more first graders out here.

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We get a lot of 
seeds planted,

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and they're very 
good at doing that.

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Christina: Turlock wants to make 
this farm accessible to every

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student in the district... 
whether it's elementary

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school students 
on a field trip....

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or high schoolers who are 
raising animals through

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Future Farmers of America.

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Student: She was 
born in November,

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so she's about four 
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Christina: The learning 
doesn't stop at the farm for

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these first graders from 
Julien Elementary School.

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Their teachers say they 
have several lessons

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planned around 
today's excursion.

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Heather: Kids are 
jumping up and down,

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very excited, and it kind 
of brings to life the things

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they've been reading 
about and learning about.

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Laura: The teachers are very 
good about bringing it back

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to the classroom 
and using it as,

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"Remember when we were at 
the farm and we did this?"

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Christina: Turlock's farm 
coordinator Laura Brem says

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the district was also motivated 
by new science standards

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that encourage kids to 
memorize less

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and explore more.

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Laura: We don't just 
give them the answers.

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We want them to 
explore and to investigate,

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and then find the 
answers on their own,

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because, as they go 
through that process,

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they internalize it.

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They, it becomes 
a part of them.

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00:22:31,833 --> 00:22:33,466
Simon: I've been 
planting peas,

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00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,200
climbing on 
tractors, looking at fruit.

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00:22:37,233 --> 00:22:39,533
I really enjoyed looking 
inside a tractor because

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I don't really get to 
do that very often.

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00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:46,366
Christina: The food grown 
on the Turlock farm typically

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00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,800
returns to the schools as 
a snack for students.

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But the farm run by the 
Ceres school district

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takes it a step further.

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Each year they sell about 
$18,000 thousand dollars

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00:22:56,133 --> 00:22:58,300
worth of produce grown on 
the farm back to

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the school district.

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Ken: It's really a 
seed-to-fork operation.

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We start seeds in our 
greenhouses with our

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students, we grow those and 
then they actually go into a

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school lunch program 
with the school district.

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So instead of buying 
it from a wholesaler,

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they're actually purchasing 
it from the ag program

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00:23:13,333 --> 00:23:15,066
and those funds 
come back into it.

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So on a, on a average week, 
we're probably feeding

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2,000 students just off 
of this particular fruit

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that comes off the farm.

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Arianna: The food that grows 
out here and goes to our

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cafeteria, I feel like 
that does make a difference,

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because a lot of people 
don't know where their

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food comes from.

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Instead of like trucking in 
fruits from different

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parts of California, 
we can just truck 'em in

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from our school farm.

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Christina: Arianna is a 
junior at Ceres Central

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Valley High School, which 
offers students four career

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00:23:42,433 --> 00:23:44,666
pathways in its 
agriculture program.

533
00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:47,133
This 6 and a half acre 
farm is an extension

534
00:23:47,166 --> 00:23:49,566
of that program.... 
with more than 200

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00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,200
fruit trees, table grapes 
and vegetables.

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00:23:52,233 --> 00:23:55,166
Plus, there's livestock 
facilities so students

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can learn how to 
care for cattle,

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00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:58,900
sheep, pigs and goats.

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00:23:58,933 --> 00:24:01,100
Arianna: I've been thinking 
a lot about veterinarian

540
00:24:01,133 --> 00:24:03,800
technician, with the 
experience I have with goats

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it's going to help me a lot 
to go towards my career.

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00:24:06,266 --> 00:24:09,100
Christina: Ceres ag 
instructor Ken Moncrief

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00:24:09,133 --> 00:24:11,666
says one of the most 
rewarding parts of his job

544
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:14,466
is watching students eat 
farm -fresh food

545
00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:16,466
often for the 
very first time.

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00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:18,933
Ken: When we grow a carrot, 
they're pulling the carrots

547
00:24:18,966 --> 00:24:19,933
right out of the ground.

548
00:24:19,966 --> 00:24:21,000
I have to kind of fight 
them to go wash them,

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00:24:21,033 --> 00:24:23,366
because they're so excited 
to try their vegetables

550
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:24,466
that they grew.

551
00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:26,700
So I think they're really 
learning about nutrition

552
00:24:26,733 --> 00:24:28,366
and things like that, because 
they're eating something

553
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,400
right out of the ground.

554
00:24:29,433 --> 00:24:31,833
Sarahi: I think it's very 
important for students

555
00:24:31,866 --> 00:24:34,600
to know where the 
food, is coming from,

556
00:24:34,633 --> 00:24:35,833
because a lot of people

557
00:24:35,866 --> 00:24:37,600
are starting to raise 
awareness of how

558
00:24:37,633 --> 00:24:40,533
important it is to have, 
like, locally sourced food.

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00:24:40,566 --> 00:24:42,400
Christina: School officials 
from both Turlock and

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00:24:42,433 --> 00:24:44,200
Ceres agree.... 
the learning that

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00:24:44,233 --> 00:24:46,966
goes on at these 
farms is invaluable.

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00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,666
It provides a hands-on 
experience students can't get

563
00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:52,266
in the classroom... 
sparks a new appreciation

564
00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:55,100
for animals.... 
and even offers inspiration

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00:24:55,133 --> 00:24:56,300
for a future career.

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Ken: In education, there 
are so many great kids.

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00:25:00,033 --> 00:25:02,233
And I think this is a 
shining example of where

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kids can really shine.

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00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,000
Every part of this is 
touched by kid's hands.

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00:25:06,033 --> 00:25:08,233
And that's what 
makes me the most proud.

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00:25:08,266 --> 00:25:12,266
♪♪♪

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public school districts

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00:26:09,666 --> 00:26:13,033
That's approximately $211 
for each full-time student

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based on $1.7 billion 
contributed in

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fiscal year 2017-18.

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With caring teachers, 
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public school student

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