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America needs comprehensive education reform from pre-K through higher education, including universal accountability, revamped teacher training, free community college for B-average students, and a requirement that every high school graduate have a post-secondary plan.

Emanuel details an ambitious education reform plan including universal pre-K, teacher training overhaul, free community college for B-average students, and a requirement that every high school graduate show a letter of acceptance from a college, community college, military branch, or vocational school. ✦ AI generated

Rahm Emanuel · All-In Podcast · 2026-08-13 · original ↗

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Universal accountability, not just teachers, parents, principles, and the schools. Two, reboot our teacher education and training so it's constant, not just one and done. And the teacher training today is really flat. Give the teachers the support so they know what to do on the subjects they're supposed to do... Nobody graduates and gets a high school diploma without showing a letter of acceptance from a college, a community college, a branch of the armed forces or vocational school. Every child, not just Jason, David, and Rahm's, has a plan. They know where they're walking to when they're walking on graduation day.

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53:15rear in there at Stanford the single best education system of the top 100. We drove by example we drove our graduation rates from 56 to 83%. We drove our reading and math scores at every one of the elementary levels. I'm doing this by memory, so I could be slightly wrong. It's in the report, but we were six months ahead of our peers. And trust me, that is not easy to

53:41achieve. Now, I'm going to go to Louisiana at the end of September because it's the only state whose reading and math scores have gone up to pre-COVID level to find out what they're doing. Like I went to Mississippi on the higher ed on the elementary level. One is we created K full day kindergarten, free full day prek. I'm very big believer in early childhood in the elementary years.

54:08Three things, universal accountability, not just teachers, parents, principles, and the schools. Two, reboot our teacher education and training so it's constant, not just one and done. And the teacher uh training today is really flat. Give the teachers the support so they know what to do on the subjects they're supposed to do. Constantly train them. It's not and redo reboot the entire teacher training program starting at our

54:39colleges. Three is braid the resources together so states and cities can meld it because what happens on [snorts] the southside or west side of Chicago or what happens in our suburbs or what happens in some of our best schools like North Side and Payton just isn't the same students and poor students need more resources but accountability through the system. Now fourth, nobody wants to talk about it.

55:04Guess what? You got to be at this every day. This is a 20-year project, not a two two-year project. That's what Mississippi and Louisiana showed us. High school fundamental reform. Elementary re stay with the uh the fundamentals. High school, we drove 50% of our kids, which was our goal. We're graduating with college credit on high school day. I'd set a goal as if I decide to do

55:32this. 100% of our kids will graduate high school with college credit through dual credit and dual enrollment with our local community colleges of which are 1,200. Second, we're the only school district in America that set this up and I to make it a national requirement. Nobody graduates and gets a high school diploma without a showing a letter of acceptance from a college, a community college, a branch of the armed forces or

55:53vocational school. Every child, not just Jason, David, and Rams, has a plan. They know where they're walking to when they're walking on graduation day. Universal post high school education. I rec and now we hired a huge amount of college careers in the city of Chicago, but we accomplished 98% compliance with it. Third, take $8 billion you're wasting on detention centers at the ICE and modernize our community college systems,

56:25both the campuses, the curriculum, and the relevancy it has to the industries in and around. Finally, fifth, higher education 20% foreign students. They're allowed up to two identify 10% of the stuff that you do pay for in complying with the federal government. you keep a 100% of those dollars. Three, if a child graduates with 20 college credits from high school, that child is uh open to a three-year BA, not a

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