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Bar and making sure our outcomes are above the proficient level. these children need that. >> yeah. janette dibell a principal of providence st. mel of chicago. appreciate your time and all of the best in the rest of the school year, too. >> thank you. at 11:15 eastern time, detroit officials lay out their plan for education and you will hear it here live on cnn. if it's not there are over 50 international awards we'd better give back. the jaguar xf. the critically acclaimed result of a very different way of thinking.

We're in the fourth year. our isat scores, our students are 67 right now proficient across the board. they were somewhere around 13% proficient when we took the school over so we're very excited about the growth in that school. again, the principal of that school is really into instructional leadership just like i am at providence st. mel school. >> do you agree with the fact that some of the schools are closing because they're underperforming and do you agree with school districts in rhode island because it fires teachers because of underperforming schools? >> well, i think the first thing we...

Whether it will lead to a lot of jobs and based on everything that will happen so far we're seeing teachers get fired and then they want to make other changes. i can tell you this to be fair and this is the last number. overall the education department has gotten $100 billion out of the stimulus. 98.3 billion, a ton of money there, and they are saying more than 300,000 jobs have been funded by that money already so far. so it's a lot of jobs coming from that, but in terms of these things that they're doing in individual schools now, we are not so far able to tell you if these thing especially ...

Providence st. mel, a private school in chicago that's improved dramatically under her leadership. janet, first off, what did you take this school, once a catholic school and in a very tough school district and how did you get the students motivated and actually get the test scores up? >> well, actually i think the principal's job is to be the instructional leader and that's exactly where my passion is. hiring terrific people, working really hard for common goals, making sure our expectations are high, making sure that our curriculum is set in a way that not only motivates students, but nurtur...