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>> we were spreading ourselves far too thin. facing a $50 million deficit. and if we didnt do something to take our school district off that trajectory, we couldve easily gone into bankruptcy. >> im really sad. its a great school, my son has had a lot of success here. its a great learning environment. >> in many districts, their obsession with keeping every school open despite the declining population results in educational services being delivered in a much more inefficient manner. if your popu...

>> i have a 8-year-old and 6-year-old that will be going to school with a 12th grader and i find that to be very inappropriate. >> we were spreading ourselves far too thin, facing a $50 million deficit. if we didnt do something to take our school district off that trajectory, we could have gone into bankruptcy. >> im really sad. its a great school. my son has had a lot of success here. >> in many districts, their obsession with keeping every school open despite the declining population results i...

What do you think about it? >> i think it was the right decision to make. what happens in many districts is their obsession with keeping every school open despite declining student population results in educational services being delivered in a much more inefficient manage manner. you have to consolidate these buildings. if your population dropped 30% to 40% at some point you are to consolidate schools. your schools, you have to reduce the number of schools or other programs get deprived. class ...

I feel right now our kids area teachers are overworked trying to cram what they do in five days. in our district we have no intention of closing our buildings on the fifth day. we have numerous programs that were looking at creating for the fifth nontraditional day of learning. because i agree with randi, you dont want kids on the street and empty buildings. but its going to be a different way of educating the kids on that fifth day. >> how are you saving money if youre keeping the school open? ...

National education standards and 45 states have tentatively agreed to implement them. i would start with that. and then, if i were starting again, i would have a longer school year. and give more time on task. i would have every school open after school and on the weekends. we had no federal funding for that when i became president and we were sporting somewhere between $1.3 and 1.6 million kis in after-school programs when i left. i think that is really, really important. a lot of this is just ...

From one massive anti-government rally in southeastern libya. you can see people waving that giant flag there. well, that was the national flag before gadhafi took power. earlier, i talked to an american teacher. she evacuated on that ferry to malta. and she told us about the worsening situation there that weve seen on the streets. >> well, you know, things deteriorated really quickly. i met with the board on sunday afternoon and we opted to continue running the american school because we didnt ...