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Hbcus who have a serious educational issue right now with funding, if you don't give them the money that they need, then i think you're doing aupre disservice. i want people also to remember at t gradu of hbcus are forging the way in science, technology, engineering, and math programs. so this whole farce of going to the oval office i think was a photo op for the president. and we cannot allow that to happen. and as a proud alumnus of two hbcus, i won't allow it to happen. >> and president morris indicated he felt they had basically gotten a photo op. tara, this move of the hbcu initiative out...

This together. >> you talk about the children competing. one child at the white house science fair earlier, and i was speaking to one of your colleagues today in the white house, who mentioned joey hutty here on the screen with the marshmallow cannon in that official box for the state of the union, now 16 years old, intel's youngest intern, and he is, according to some people, an example of the kind of person that you want to use in the science, technology, engineering, and math programs. he showed off this -- we're seeing it on the screen, the marshmallow cannon, and the president was impress...

Scalpel. >> there are more than 200 science technology, engineering and math programs across the government, 13 agencies, 3.1 billion a yore and sequestration cuts all of those 209 programs for science and math education equally, making no distinction between good programs and bad programs. >> sequester is automatic for nine more years it can only be changed if both houses vote to, so in the present budget negotiations it's a powerful gop bargaining tool to nudge congress to tackle a bigger portion of the debt, entitlement spending. >> the economy added 114,000 job and the unemployment rate di...

What you saw in rhode island is that 1,000 people came out to support the teachers and the school, wanting the school to succeed and the teachers to stay there. the teachers want the school to succeed. everyone wants to help kids learn in rhode island. i'm very confident that if the superintendent really wants to solve this, we can solve this. failure is not an option here. >> do you think -- just briefly, do you think these teachers will end up retaining their jobs? they've all been fired as of now. >> they've all been fired. even though all of them have gotten positive evaluations under the ...

Proven programs in that school, the kind of resources that kids need separate and apart from their teachers so that we turn that school around. >> why shouldn't the teachers be demanded of them to lengthen the school day, offer more tutoring, some of the other things, get additional training, eat lunch with the students once a week. teachers there wanted to be paid for these, quote, extras. why aren't they built into the system? >> the teachers wanted to do virtually all of that. the issue became -- the teachers were actually asking for some information about how to use the time and, frankly, ...