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And found the grade level of the speeches declined from an 11th grade level to a 10th grade level. constitut the study found the republican congressman became the most advanced speeches. simplest speeches were given by the republican congressman rob woodall. those your headlines. how do they know that? how do they know that? >> not in congress anymore. >> from florida, the one term congressman. >> die quickly. lets talk about president obama yesterday, sitting there with his world in his audienc...

colombia, it just got bigger. now its spreading to the dea. the drug enforcement agency. what would you do if you got smacked with a $93,000 bill and what if that bill wasnt even for you? well talk to one man who is on the hook for his mothers nursing home bill and the obscure law thats being used to make sure families pay up. beam me up scotty. the first private space launch is in history books with some very special cargo. shes taking over. >> you are a man. you might as well sta...

jurys hand. what they tell us about the deliberations. we begin this evening with what you might call the facebook hangover. after the hype and buildup after the initial offering of stock, trading started late, price didnt sky rock and facebook closed essentially flat, just $0.23 higher than the opening. at least facebook was up. dow industrials, nasdaq, s&p 500 closed out their worst week of the year. discuss with business correspondent ali velshi. lets start with facebook. what hap...

>> oprah thinks this woman can fix it. >> thank you. i am rooting for you. >> michelle is michelle reed. >> michelle reed an acting chancellor. >> five years ago adrien fenty picked her to run a dc school. >> you had never run a school system before? >> i had never run a school before. thats why adriid everyone thou adrien fenty was nuts. >> i was a 37-year-old girl from toledo, ohio. >> i had two kids two daughters 9 and 12. i put them in the dc public schools. >> the schools were a disaster. t...

Can fix it. >> thank you, michelle. im rooting for you. >> michelle is michelle reid. >> michelle reid. >> five years ago the may your picked her to manage d.c. schools. >> you had never run a school system before. >> i had never run a school before and that is why people thought that adrian was nuts. a 37-year-old girl from toledo, ohio. >> and people said what? who? >> yeah. people said he has lost his mind. >> her friends said she had lost hers. >> i had two kids, two daughters 9 and 12 and i...

What have you built in accountability-wise? one thing i have noticed when it comes to charter schools there are great examples but when they dont work it takes a while to shut them down or to reform them? >> lets start off with louisianas experience. pree katrina we had one of the worst public school systems. today 80% are in charter schools, the highest percentage of any city in america. the portion of kids on grade level doubled and the percentage of failing schools decreased. you see great mo...

Entice somebody to stay in teaching as a career is the fact that it is going to come with good benefits. are those benefits going to go away? >> no. a couple of things. one, we have cut since i have been here cut the budget 26% but increased k-12 spending by 9%. we gave teachers a pretty significant pay raise bringing them up to the southern average. nicholas crist off wrote a controversial article saying if you have a great teacher able to teach your child getting them to above grade level it i...

For taking kids below grade level and getting them to or above grade level. those are some of the worst classrooms for our teachers. we have changed that in louisiana. we are giving parents a trigger so that before the schools have been failing for many years the parents can vote to take over a school and improve it. we know the children only grow up once. it is wrong to tell the parents just to wait. we are empowering parpts to vote to change their local schools. >> what is the pay? what should...

coast. 8:00 out west. if theres anything republicans and democrats in congress agree on, its jobs. sure enough, about three hours from now, president obama will step into the white house rose garden to sign the jobs act, as in jump-start our business start-ups. a bipartisan attempt to help small businesses to get funding faster to grow quicker. critics fear fraud, labor department reports another drop, last weeks number was 357,000, down 6,000 from the week before. time is running ...

Can fix it. thank you michelle. >> john: michelle is michelle rhee. five years ago she managed d.c. schools. >> you never run a school system before? >> id never ran a school before. that is why people thought that they were nuts. >> john: people said, what, who? >> people said he lost his mind. >> john: her friends said she lost hers. >> i have two daughters, nine and 12. i put them in the d.c. public schools. >> john: the schools were disaster. test results among the worst in america. chancell...