if he is that upset our side must be making progress. bret: talk about education in america. you have a special this weekend. tell us about it. cool things are happening outside the smothering government monopoly of public education. four years ago i did a sw with 20/20 called stupid in america talking about kids are trapped. everybody says we re not funding education. we don t care about it. we are spending three times as much adjusted for inflation in the last 40 years and it s flat. spending flat, made no difference. now the charter experiment, if they don t work they go out of business. if they work, more of them happen. i was in fourth grade classrooms where i d say to kids school is boring. they d say no, it s not, mr. john stossel. it s exciting. reading and math is difficult. but reading is rocking aw awesome.
if he is that upset our side must be making progress. bret: talk about education in america. you have a special this weekend. tell us about it. cool things are happening outside the smothering government monopoly of public education. four years ago i did a show with 20/20 called stupid in america talking about kids are trapped. everybody says we re not funding education. we don t care about it. we are spending three times as much adjusted for inflation in the last 40 years and it s flat. spending flat, made no difference. now the charter experiment, if they don t work they go out of business. if they work, more of them happen. i was in fourth grade classrooms where i d say to kids school is boring. they d say no, it s not, mr. john stossel. it s exciting. reading and math is difficult. but reading is rocking aw awesome.