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Male Voice 1: Castle report number two: quality Delaware education. Mike Castle understands that the future of Delaware

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depends on how we raise and educate our sons and daughters. As head of the governor's task force on education,

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Mike Castle knows firsthand how Delaware schools are doing and how much more must be done. Male Voice 2: Our public schools are

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really doing quite well. And this year in the General Assembly, we passed a lot of legislation to help with this.

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We have now have mandatory kindergarten and we are the first state in the entire country to have mandatory kindergarten. Which means that our kids are going to get

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a little bit of a headstart over other kids in the country. We're reducing class size in elementary grades. We put more money into the

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remedial education; that is the basic skills to make sure that young people who are behind, who do need the individual attention

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will receive that individual attention. And we think that these steps plus additional teacher pay are going to be very good steps

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to take that Delaware back to the top educationally Male Voice 1: Mike Castle for Governor. Battle Robinson

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for Lieutenant Governor, an experienced team. Continue the tradition of excellence. Paid for by Friends of Mike Castle.