mr. ameer baraka who obviously -- also dr. eden's daughter is going to be allowed to achieve class because they did not know. mr. mahone said there's not many districts screening. i'm not sure there's any district screening. if you have a condition effect in 20% in one way or another. you are an attorney. you spoke of civil rights. it's inexcusable we are not screening? this is not 1% or 2%. >> senator, we have the technique to do that. we could do that in a cost effective way. it's a question of education. it's a question of commitment, but we could do this for action about we spend on lots of other things that are much less import and much less critical to children in our country. we have the ability to screen. we know how to do it. we could implement it in a cost-effective way. we are just not doing it. >> i think i know it costs $50,000 a year to incarcerate somebody. so if you broke down the silos and somehow sad look at redirection dollars and make quite a different, it is the definition of penny wise and pound foolish. y

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mr. baraka -- obviously a tragic story but it seems to have finished well, but dr. eden's daughter who was a promising girl who would be allowed to achieve less because they did not know. said there are not many district screenings -- i'm not sure there are any. i'm not sure there's a single district that screens kids for dyslexia. you are an attorney, is it excusable we are not screening? this is not 1% or 2%, the cost ratio -- we can do that in a cost effective way. it's a question of education and commitment, but we could do this for a fraction of what we spend on lots of other things that are much less important and much like critical to our children and our country. we have the ability to screen and we could implement it in a cost-effective way. it costs about $50,000 year to incarcerate somebody. if you broke down the silos and said if we broke down the dollars, we could make a difference. >> it is the definition of any wise and pound foolish. he identified was early by a teacher or was it because of your family history that you knew to watch? >> it was in the