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Speaker 1: How many times have you heard the Prime Minister say

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Speaker 1: this government is different because it's going to set targets,

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Speaker 1: it's going to track progress, and it's going to be

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Speaker 1: open about its actual results, going to be honest. That's

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Speaker 1: how we're going to get the country back on track.

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Speaker 1: This is what we've heard from National and from the

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Speaker 1: Coalition so many times. And what's more important than turning

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Speaker 1: around education and getting on top of youth crime, youth justice,

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Speaker 1: not much, which is why they've got charter schools and

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Speaker 1: why they've got boot camps. Everybody said, yep, those kids

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Speaker 1: need sorting out in the case of boot camps, or

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Speaker 1: those kids deserve more choice in the case of charter schools.

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Speaker 1: But now this week we've heard from the agencies involved

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Speaker 1: in these programs and they've decided they won't be telling

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Speaker 1: the public how many students are enrolled at the new

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Speaker 1: charter schools, and in the case of the boot camps,

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Speaker 1: they won't talk about how many of the kids are

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Speaker 1: actually reoffending. They've given various excuses for this, but none

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Speaker 1: of them really stack up. The fact is people can't

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Speaker 1: trust a system or a program that they know nothing

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Speaker 1: about when you're totally upfront about the results. When you're

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Speaker 1: not totally upfront about the results, I should say, it

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Speaker 1: looks like you're trying to hide something. It looks like

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Speaker 1: when you're trying to hide something, it's bad news normally

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Speaker 1: that you're trying to hide. So, either the government knows

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Speaker 1: that charter schools and boot camps are a bad idea,

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Speaker 1: which I doubt because otherwise why would they do them,

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Speaker 1: Or they're a little bit scared of failure maybe on

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Speaker 1: some key programs. We're a year out from an election.

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Speaker 1: Here's some free advice to you. And I don't know,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, whether it's the government directed in the

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Speaker 1: agencies to do this or just the agencies themselves, but

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Speaker 1: here's some free advice. Give us the truth and we

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Speaker 1: will make up our own minds. For more from hither

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