The Khan Academy was founded in 2008 by a MIT-grad hedge fund analyst Salman Khan after he began recording web tutorials on math and science for his younger cousins and uploading them to YouTube.

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You guys deserve a lot of congratulations. (Applause.) We appreciate you. (Applause.) Progress has also been possible thanks to math and science coaches, and extra learning time in after-school, and Saturday school, and summer school.

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Cut after-school funding only after consolidating the 105 federal programs meant to encourage kids to take math and science classes.

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