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They say federal and state officials dont take into account the fact about 80% of the graduates here go on to college and the dozens of advanced placement classes are offered. a state education official tells cnn over the past two years tc williams has not reduced its failure rate in math and reading enough to qualify for certain federal money. the school has never met all the testing benchmarks covered in the no child left behind law. i spoke about that with an analyst with the independent thin...

Regard to the health care bill. because it resonates with me, with anyone who has ever been to the hospital with a sick kid. >> resonates with doctors, administrators, everybody. >> what else are we looking at? house speaker nancy pelosi continues to face questions with when she learned about sexual harassment allegations against former congressman eric massa. the house pushed a resolution to examine whether top democratic leaders covered up the allegations. speaker pelosi said that her office...

Chance to succeed. >> and senator perkins argument which he makes again in "the new york times" is that the huge number of applicants to these charter schools is not evidence that they are good or that they are a success. its evidence that public schools are a failure. thats exactly the point. they are the failure, so lets try something new now. >> more than happy to have him on. >> and, again, charter schools are public schools, but they are public schools where you give teachers, you give stud...

The first day of school, they go take a field trip and where do they go? >> they go to a college campus. i mean, the culture we create at urban prep is completely and totally focused on these guys going to college. every morning, the students recite a school creed which starts out by saying that they are college bound. so they really every day they believe it, they live it. they go to northwestern university during the summer programs, before their first day of school and spend the day there hea...

Remember this school? its where the superintendent fired all the teachers and ordered no more than half be rehired. students say this reform plan is taking a toll on them. >> to lose one teacher in 2009, the soul of the school, part of it was taken away. now to lose 50% or even more than that, i really dont know where these students would be. >> the superintendent is sticking by her decision. she points to the fact that the school didnt graduate half of its seniors last year. firing teachers i...

Writes, "why are we talking about laying off teachers and not the administrators? does the high school really need two principals, four vice principals and ten counselors in order to function?" and this cuts to the idea that you guys are really mismanaging your personnel and your budgets. maybe you could speak to that. >> yeah. quite frankly, i support the blog. or the blogger. >> yeah. >> the reality is, you really have to do a surgical reduction in your budget. you have to take a look at your ...

Nationwide. >> if you eliminate half of the schools, it also means a decision has to be made about what teachers to let go, what teachers to keep. how do parents or even school kids get any kind of reassurance, the same system thats closing the schools or allowed them to stay open, fire or hire, et cetera, theyre making the decisions about which teachers perform the best, which ones need to stay? >> thats exactly right. >> how can parents trust the system? >> thats exactly right. they actually h...

Accused of recruiting terrorists overseas under the online name jihad jane. the federal indictment says 46-year-old colleen larose also agreed to kill a swedic cartoonist who outraged muslims. she had her blond hair and blue eyes would help avoid suspicion. now a third arrest in a church shooting in richmond. you may remember these pictures from last month. two teenage brothers were shot. police say an 18-year-old is now in custody. a 15 and 16-year-old were arrested in the days right after th...

Boys." he co-starred with cory feldman in several movies and a reality show as well. making tough choices on education. across the country were hearing the same story, communities forced to make big cuts. we saw the protests last week during a nationwide day of action. students and parents upset over the fate of their schools. heres an example. in kansas city today, theyre voting on a plan to close half the schools in the district and let hundreds of teachers go. >> right now making these cuts...

Instead looking to cut programs, to lay off teachers, administrators, staff. a lot of times the bus routes that have been driven are being canceled and parents are having to drive their kids to school, all as measures to stop the closing of these schools. >> so, wait a minute. so, okay. i think that explains it generally. its certainly what we heard in our segment yesterday. weve got another one coming up in just another couple of minutes here. but whats the situation with kansas city? i think i...