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Say the problems extend far beyond the schools. >> it's not the building. it's not the principal. it's not the teachers. it's parents, stupid. it's really -- it really is the parents. and we've got to find a way to engage the parents. >> i get a little emotional because i've been doing this for 24 years and i love it. >> reporter: high school teacher edna reeves has mixed feelings about bobb's overhaul. she gives him a c. >> because he hasn't achieved what he came here for. >> reporter: rueducing the deficit. >> it's grown since he's been here. i have a problem with that. i cannot give you an ...

extremely important issues. that's the word that was used on the poll. unemployment, more than 54% of you think that's extremely important for the president and congress. health care, the deficit, they're all running above 50%. and almost there, 47%, social security. what are all those got in common? money, money, money and money. non-money issues fall lower on the list. education, 47%, terrorism, 45%, afghanistan, 36%, iraq, 34%, and gay marriage, 15%. for all the fury and the sound, gay marriage is seen as extremely important by only 15% of the population. well, i mentioned optimis...

In her words, he can administer the medicine but not tell you to drop dead. wolf. >> ed henry at the white house, thank you. detroit has fallen on some hard times recently, as we all know, but nowhere is this more obvious than in the city's school system. fraud, corruption and declining numbers have pushed the system to the brink, but officials are doing their best to try to bring it back. cnn's money.com poppy harlow is joining us with more on this. a sad story what's going on in detroit but happening indeed in a lot of urban areas across the country. >> detroit in decline of the city and t...

Individuals in the next few months because i'm going to close somewhere between 20, maybe 40 schools within the next few months. >> reporter: this family applauds bobb's drastic cuts but says the problems extend far beyond the schools. >> it's not the building. it's not the principal. it's not the teachers. it's the parents, stupid. it really is the parents. >> reporter: high schoolteacher edna reeves has mixed feelings about bobb's job. >> he hasn't reduced the deficit, it's grown since he's been here. >> reporter: deficit is larger than previously thought, mostly from boring owes millions of...

The principals or the students, it is the parents. >> reporter: and the principal has mixed feelings. >> he has not achieved what he came here for, and that is reducing the deficit. it has grown since he has been here. >> reporter: bobb argues that the deficit he inherited is twice as large as previously thought and most of it from borrowing millions of dollars with money to pay it back. >> is this system stronger because of robert bobb? >> i would say it is better is make the moves that nobody else wanted to make. >> reporter: but the bold moves are academic changes and some that the school b...