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Case basis but didnt make any big bulk purchases. >> greta: is any one up in arms and saying this is not a smart way to do this? >> the county was kind of in a tizzy last month when this came out again and there was new commissioners who had no idea this was going on. some of the veteran commissioners were told about this a couple of years ago but you said we really didnt realize there were cars there from 2006 or 2007 and they asked the mayor for a report and that is when said he has been tryin...

Those are your headlines this morning. >> lets take you down to. >> i was looking very quickly, the dow is right at 13,000, so with that new greek bailout, maybe youll see north of 13,000 for the first time in a really long time. >> that means mainstream media will say happy days are here again. stock market crisis averted. meanwhile, lets talk a little bit about down in one of the washington suburbs in montgomery county, maryland, montgomery county community college, apparently what theyre goin...

I meant to say the 229th of april, a week from friday. we will have it live for you you that afternoon. alert the players, tell the coaches, new york officials have just saved the wiffle ball season. putting together a list of games what officials called a significant risk of injury. on the list the aforementioned wif gmplet le ball. along with dodge ball, kick ball, red rover, capture the flag and freeze tag. stop it. well, they did. the health department wasnt going to outlaw the games or anyt...

>> of course, one of the problems with maybe people say thats good, were cutting the budget. when you consider the fact that we have a $1.5 trillion deficit this year alone over 10 years, what is $1.1 trillion add up to? that means maybe cuts but maybe not the painful cuts we are poised and thought we had to endure. >> lets take a look at some of the things that apparently will be getting cut under the presidents plan. clean water program. >> we dont need that. >> home heating assistance. >> nah...

Give equal resources to those districts so they could have special programs, early childhood education, intense early literacy changing, renovated buildings, summer programs, after school programs and its really made a difference because as you know, some of the most depressed areas in the country are in new jersey and newark, but they have been able to boost their high school gararaduation rates, so it show with state or federal commitment and intensifies educational programs that meets the nee...

Didnt surprise me, but the statistics shocked me, frankly. let me read them. by sixth grade, low-income students fell three grades behind. by ninth grade, two-thirds of learning gap between income groups. what does this tell us about what we need to do in terms of our educational system? >> it tells us two things. one is that what is going on during the school year may not be quite as bad as were always hearing. it also tells us where we can focus a lot of effort at reasonably low costs. because...

Doesnt have to go back to school. >> if youre a teen youre at the end of the list. >> we talked a lot about the stimulus and other things to help adults get back to work. whats being done to help the people who fall in that category? >> a congressman in illinois is putting through the legislature employing the youth for the american dream act. this act, $8 billion towards basically encouraging employers with tax breaks and subsidies to employ more youth, employ more teens. up to the age of 24. s...

The first day of school, they go take a field trip and where do they go? >> they go to a college campus. i mean, the culture we create at urban prep is completely and totally focused on these guys going to college. every morning, the students recite a school creed which starts out by saying that they are college bound. so they really every day they believe it, they live it. they go to northwestern university during the summer programs, before their first day of school and spend the day there hea...

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