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In the state of the union, you say, im putting you on notice, schools, if you dont do that, e youre going to see your funding drop. has there been any change? >> youre right. our first step was to make sure we were providing the aid and grant that were needed so the burden wasnt all falling on kids. we took money out of the pell gram. we said lets cut out the middle men. lets use that to expand the assistance were providing the kids. so as a consequence the average cost has not gone up as fast a...

Schools is youve got to continue to keep the high standards, but were still going to measure growth. youre not going have a chance do really well with white kids and the black and hispanic kids but you average it out and meet something. were still going to desegregate that. moving toward the growth model and measuring how a school is doing gives every school the opportunity to improve without labeling them as failures and then not giving them the resources that they need to actually step up. >> ...

O your game. so what ive proposed moving forward, building off of the race to the top, lets hire new math and science teachers who are trained in math and science without being thrown in the classroom without the preparation they need. focus on early childhood education. part of our race to the top is lets figure out what are the dropout factories out there. some schools are really underperforming. lets transform those schools. and in all these situations what we have to do is combine creativity...

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