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Only 10% of a school's budget comes from the federal budget. it's up to districts and states to stem the inequity. another thing they do really well in shanghai is they have sister programs so the higher performing schools take on a lesser performing school and take over the management to elevate it. >> you also talk about the respect the teachers had in the societies. now, that's something the government i suppose can't really do. teachers could be paid more, which i think is one of the tragedies in america. we think we pay teachers well. we don't. we pay them badly. what could one do about t...

Protesting a state plan that they say would lead to resegregating public schools in little rock. 62 years after the district was integrated. cnn's victor blackwell has more. >> reporter: outside of little rock central high school where nine african-american students desegregated the then all-white school six decades ago, parents, students and teachers are calling on the state to kill a proposal they fear will lead to a new era of school segregation. the state has controlled the little rock school district for nearly five years because some schools have been struggling academically. a controver...

Right? if you don't have the kid around lead, they're not going to have their brain irreparably harmed. it's simple. we very this thing in the philadelphia we call it the philly shrug yeah kids are getting lead poisons. nobody seems to realize this impact them. the fact it's all i don't have the schools is criminal. >> one of the most frightening parts of their investigation was the dangerous levels of lead and asbestos found in philadelphia schools. and look, the kids in philly are already exposed to elevated risk since 92% of the city's housing was built before the lead paint ban. cassidy el...

It's one of the worst performing schools in the philadelphia school system. this is chelsea. these a fifth grader at cassidy. so do you play on these playgrounds? >> the little kids do, yeah. >> do you play over there? >> yeah. >> wendy and barbara's investigation uncovered alarming amounts of asbestos dust throughout the school. >> it's got to go beyond the status quo because this is a public health crisis. >> sharon bryant, a teacher with over 25 years of experience, has taught at cassidy. last year chelsea was one of her star students. >> i believe cassidy was supposed to have been closed a...

>> one more thing before we go, day two of the teacher's strike in the denver public school system and talks have resumed to end the impasse over teacher pay and bonuses. they want to lower bonuses district-wide to free up moan for better salaries overall. as it stands now, the district hands out larger bonuses to teacher who is work in high poverty and high priority campuses. the union wants bonuses to reflect a teacher's education and training like most school districts across the country. district officials want to stick with what they've got. they argue paying teachers more for low perform...