are you smarter thanndrew cuomo. we could measure ourselves against the elected officials.sts has been such a big part of the debate not only in states but at a national conversation at a level above the states there are other big issues in play. one of them we alludee to was spending on public education. in a lot of the states there's an ngoing debate about whether the correlation spending per student and those that think there is, there are others who say actually you can throw as much money as you want at the problem and not solve it, where do you come down onnthat? >> well, i come down on saying what you're spending money on matters a great deaa. >> what you're spending money on. -ú>> yes, what you're spenning money on. and there's a lot of things úou're not spending enough money -úon, i probably end up spending morr than we're spending now. >> for instanne. >> early childhood education is very, very important. we talk a lot in this society about the achievement gap, the achievement gap begins before the first day of kindergarten, if we want to reduce the achievement ga