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Commitment to black women or our fight. you have to a deep investment in how well our public schools are doing our job. president obama says theyre getting better under these reforms but hell face a skeptical audience in a few minutes when he makes his case to the urban league, one of the groups ripping into the administrations policies saying theyre not helping enough. evidence of the education crisis might hit home for you. across the country and maybe in your town, budget shortfalls are for...

You have a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old. so youre a dad and youre also the education chief. if youre one of the parents whos listening to us right now and theyre very worried about a big class next year, theyre losing important foreign language access, you know, to education, foreign language instruction in their school or clubs and music programs, as a parent, what should parents do to really keep their kids engaged in school if theyre going have fewer services? >> well, i think what parents ca...

I want to ask you, when you look across the country, you see the protests, the possibility of teacher layoffs. if teachers get cut, what does that mean for the kids trying to get educations? >> theyre going to be severely impacted. theyre projecting up to 300,000 teacher layoffs nationwide. its going to right away impact the music programs, the art programs, larger class sizes. theyre closing school buildings to consolidate kids into classrooms so that youre probably going to see 35, 40 in a cla...

Succeeding. you cant have a school that has a 45% graduation rate, the same challenge we face in new york. i give the president a great deal of credit and secretary duncan credit because i think theyre willing to make the tough decisions, something we havent had in education. >> what do you say to parents who see foreign languages being canceled, fiphysical education programs, music and art have long since passed, what do you say to parents particularly in big cities who are seeing their local s...

Program after school out of their own expenses, so it does make sense. and if we have to cut some of our music programs, then they would likewise take a look at doing some of those kinds of things. the other thing we have in some of our elementary schools even is parents who are certified to substitute in schools, in the classroom, actually come in and volunteer to help us avoid substitute costs. >> the superintendent requires all hands on deck. >> yes. >> all sum s >> yes. >> all sumuperintende...

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