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Commitment to black women or our fight. you have to a deep investment in how well our public schools are doing our job. president obama says they're getting better under these reforms but he'll face a skeptical audience in a few minutes when he makes his case to the urban league, one of the groups ripping into the administration's policies saying they're not helping enough. evidence of the education crisis might hit home for you. across the country and maybe in your town, budget shortfalls are forcing tough choices, including teacher layoff. some cities have had to go even further and close ...

You have a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old. so you're a dad and you're also the education chief. if you're one of the parents who's listening to us right now and they're very worried about a big class next year, they're losing important foreign language access, you know, to education, foreign language instruction in their school or clubs and music programs, as a parent, what should parents do to really keep their kids engaged in school if they're going have fewer services? >> well, i think what parents can do now is really speak to their legislators. and we have a chance to act now and through em...

I want to ask you, when you look across the country, you see the protests, the possibility of teacher layoffs. if teachers get cut, what does that mean for the kids trying to get educations? >> they're going to be severely impacted. they're projecting up to 300,000 teacher layoffs nationwide. it's going to right away impact the music programs, the art programs, larger class sizes. they're closing school buildings to consolidate kids into classrooms so that you're probably going to see 35, 40 in a classroom now. >> i know you're familiar with the words of governor christie. he's telling the res...

Succeeding. you can't have a school that has a 45% graduation rate, the same challenge we face in new york. i give the president a great deal of credit and secretary duncan credit because i think they're willing to make the tough decisions, something we haven't had in education. >> what do you say to parents who see foreign languages being canceled, fiphysical education programs, music and art have long since passed, what do you say to parents particularly in big cities who are seeing their local schools just becoming decimat decimated? >> it's so painful and i wish i had a good answer to pare...

Program after school out of their own expenses, so it does make sense. and if we have to cut some of our music programs, then they would likewise take a look at doing some of those kinds of things. the other thing we have in some of our elementary schools even is parents who are certified to substitute in schools, in the classroom, actually come in and volunteer to help us avoid substitute costs. >> the superintendent requires all hands on deck. >> yes. >> all sum s >> yes. >> all sumuperintendents. when you come to the board of education meetings and shout and yell, you are yelling at the wro...