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Around affordable childcare. i support what we need to do around having universal pre-k. i support what we need to do around having a public education system that benefits our children and not vilifying public school teachers. [ cheers and applause ] we have got to recognize, you know, we are a nation -- if we're going to really look in the mirror and check our hypocrisy, let's recognize that there are a lot of folks who pretend to care about children but not so much other people's children. [ applause ] we need to deal with that. and classes, by the way, rachel. what did you have? >> a girl. ...

Senate for the higher education act, it probably would not pass but you put it in with reconciliation and they'll ram it through. that's right. >> how is this bad for people out there right now who have kids who are approaching college aged? why is it bad? >> in my opinion, it's bad because now you got to struggle through the bureaucracy of the department of education. can you imagine the paperwork? can you imagine the form filling? ok, you do it on line. so what? you've got to plow through endless form filling and a politicized organization to boot. i think it's bad. >> if people say i have n...

Moved. those aren't cuts, they're moving that money to concentrate it for pell grants for spring and fall semesters. part of that has to do with the fact the price of education has skyrocketed, gone average the average inflation rate and the pell grant system has take ain't beating. what they thought was a couple hundred million dollars of year to add summer school turned into multibillion proposition. >> big numbers. since you're talking about education here, chuck, the president really wrapping education around this budge the for 2012, branding it that way. >> reporter: the polling is all ov...