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Years this is about us giving kids the opportunity for the best pathway forward. steve: what would those opportunities be, jeanne? >> day one, when she gets through that hearing today, that opportunity includes trying to put the presidents vision of giving every child in america who doesnt have access to great education that access not by creating more federal programs but by devolving the power to the states and local authorities where it belongs. you know, choice in this country has been aroun...

By the secretary and federal law, one such example being common core? >> no. >> do you intend to mandate, direct, coerce, or control any state, local school district or school to require school choice policies including private school vouchers or scholarships? >> no. lets clear that for the record. next, just -- you mentioned dyslexia. i am passionate about that. 20% of us are dyslexics. 20%. im told one out of four children at age 4 of color reads substantially below grade level. thats importan...

Senator lieberman mentioned proficiency in the -- just reminded me of this -- when i first got into the senate, 2009, i had a roundtable of principals and one of the principals -- in minnesota -- and he said, we think of the nclb test as autopsies. and i knew exactly what he meant because what he was saying is the students take the test in late april, if theyre lucky, they get them back in late june. the teachers cant use the results to inform their instruction. so i saw that minnesota, in addit...

Destroying public education in america. devos has no meaningful experience in the classroom or in our schools. the sum total of her involvement has been spending her familys wealth. in an effort to dismantle public education and mexican." that is strong, what is your response? >> well, it sounds very, very familiar to me, that they recycled it from when i was there. i engage the nea a lot on these issues. what people have to remember is that you cant take politics out of politics, and the teache...

Looking to reagan, looking to n kenne kennedy, less to nixon, kennedy was a fresh incoming president and reagan had the whole morning in america as a candidate incoming as a president. can he summon that? does he have that in him to be more optimistic? >> its interesting. his mode of speech, you know, he does have memorable lines but hes not eloquent by traditional standards. at one point in the campaign i analyzed their speech level and what grade level they are speaking of. donald trump by far...

Youll see out january 1st. this is a tablet but for little kids. >> we know kids are swiping before their speaking. they love the devices. but there are tablets made just for those little hands. this is the little scholar by school zone created by a teacher. this covers three grades of content. you have pre-k, kindergarten and first grade. there are 200 apps built in. kids are following their grade level. parents can see their progress and you never have to buy anything else. its all included. >...

What parents should be getting from their school system? lets ask the president for the center of education reform. your response to their survey? >> you know, parents dont want zumba and cooking classes. parents what great education, they want great schools. what the chancellor did was she basically said what are we going to do with the 40 minutes of mandated parent engagement time? the union contract now requires. requires. lets first start with the fact that grade schools dont require parent ...

But cut the budget. we $9 billion smaller than when we cut. we are talking about 30,000 fewer people working for state government than when i took office. in washington, dc, people talk about slowing rate, and we have cut the race of government i know the left wants do raise taxes but that is new how to answer our problems. in louisiana we privatized our state hospital and we have stay-wide school choices where the dollars follow the child and new orleans 100 percent of the kids are in charter a...

>> you mentioned the study. 29% of students below grade level in history. thats not okay. we do want to improve that but its important to notice 22% of students in the nation are living below the poverty level so these are ways to improve students performances it was pointed out that it wasnt that he had a lack of interest in his studies, he was hungry. there are ways to address the family and address the needs of the community and i think that may improve what were looking for. >> its important...

>> you mentioned the study. 29% of students below grade level in history. thats not okay. we do want to improve that but its important to notice 22% of students in the nation are living below the poverty level so these are ways to improve students performances it was pointed out that it wasnt that he had a lack of interest in his studies, he was hungry. there are ways to address the family and address the needs of the community and i think that may improve what were looking for. >> its important...