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Hello, America. Mark Levain here. Our number 877-3813811.

877-3813811. When I see Joe Biden has announced a Cancer Moonshot on the 60th anniversary JFK's moonshot speech.

Cancer Moonshot, both my parents died of cancer.

I know a lot of you know people who have passed from cancer or you may actually have cancer.

The problem is it's got a thousand personalities. It's like a centipede. There's different kinds of cancers and so forth and so on.

So I would just say this. The Cancer Moonshot, I suspect under Joe Biden is just another speech.

I don't think it'll go any better than the virus moonshot where he completely bungled, completely bungled COVID-19.

I don't think I'll go any better than the way he and his party run our classrooms in this country, which is disastrous.

What's happening to our kids? They're not getting educated. The Blaze recent tests syndicate the pandemic school closures sought by teachers unions have horribly impacted kids.

It's impacted them psychologically. It's impacted them socially and it's impacted them in terms of gaining knowledge.

Carrelations were observed between closures and the significant spike in mental illness, suicide, obesity, and diminished immune systems.

In Washington, data released regarding standardized test scores indicate a significant drop in proficiency rates between 2019 and 2022 reported by WTOP.

More 10% decrease in math proficiency between 2019 and 2022 for at-risk students, a 6% decrease in English language arts proficiency for at-risk students.

That proficiency in math dropped across all grade levels. That black and Hispanic students saw the largest drop in proficiency in English language arts tests.

Over 2200 students were proficient in English language arts in 2019. We're no longer proficient this year in a test that was done. Over 3,700 students were proficient in math in 2019, but they were no longer proficient in 2022. This is in Washington, D.C.

The deputy mayor for education said these results are very sobering and underscore the urgency with which we've been working for the past two years. But it's not limited to Washington.

The Associated Depressed reports math and reading scores for American nine-year-olds felt precipitously during the first two years of the pandemic.

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