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Che guevara made 1961 the year of education. They had an illiteracy rate of 27 , which is ours, as well. And within a year, they dropped it to 4 . Howd they do it . They had the political will to attack Adult Literacy. And they closed the schools. Brigades of teachers and students went out into peasant fields, taught reading, taught writing. And within a year, it was turned around. And not only that, but today, cuba has the greatest literacy statistics in the world. And i talked to Michael Nutters the director of the Mayoral Commission on literacy, and she said, we could do that here. We have the plans to do that here. We dont have the political will to do that here. It would cost 56 million to really make a dent in Adult Literacy. 550,000 adults in philadelphia lack basic literacy skills. We cant get to job creation if we dont deal with this issue. And how would that begin . Explain once you do that part, what does it move within education for our kids to change how we see that system

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