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Right now there are over 150 districts that have pledged to work together to try to help improve student achievement even in these tough times. your question is a good one. but what the conference has done it's focused on 12 presenting districts, school board leaders, union leaders, superintendents, that have talked to the other 13450 districts how to do this, about the hard work it takes to do this. trust, relationship building, and then contractual terms with a contract becomes the engine of reform for kids. >> but you're in a -- >> i'm excited about it, as you can see. >> well, everyone's e...

Hey, jim. >> hello, shep. well president obama agrees with those who say a lot can be saved in health care by reforming the laws governing malpractice suits so doctors won't order unnecessary tests. he is only proposing giving the states $25 million for grants and demonstration projects, not actually reforms. and the democrat think tank found that some states have already tried such reforms and that expanding them nationally would reap massive savings. >> we found that roughly between 92 and $207 billion per year can be saved from reducing defensive medicine. >> how? what some states have done...

But what caught my attention, gao, not to be confused with the gsa, i might add. >> the general accounting office, very different division, which studied this. they're quoted as saying that this idea, this program to pay the $8.5 this, experiment is badly designed, unlikely to provide meaningful results. i take it you took that phrase from the gao study and went to the white house and said, look, this is a bad idea, according to the gao? >> that's right. if the first place, have you to ask, how could the administration get the authority to raid the trust fund with over $8 billion to give out t...