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Of the school year for testing that is not scientifically applicable, it hurts our kids. when you spend millions of pet programs but no money for school repairs so the roof leaks on my sturnts, that hurts the kids. here is a parent from chicago making the case that this money the being redistributed away fwr the public schools into a pet project. he speaks about how unfair it is. his maim is matt farmer. he was delivering this speech at a board -- at a ctu rally back on may 30th. >> your kids attended the university of chicago laboratory schools, correct? yes. same school mayor rahm emanuel ch...

The president today vowing to keep pushing the $447 billion jobs bill although it failed to get 60 votes needed in the senate. of course the president has been calling for congress to pass this bill. with campaign-like speeches in key swing states with payroll tax cuts to workers and businesses with $175 billion in spending on roads, school repairs and other building projects. but, now, democrats have indicated they will try to break the measure up into several smaller bills. and now the news from the white house. wendell, we felt like this could be coming because the republicans are against s...

malone's is the country's only village post office. the postal service says they expect to save about $42,000 a year here and may turn as many as 3,700 existing locations into village post offices. but with a looming debt of $9 billion, saving the u.s. mail service is going to take more than a village post office. patrick oppman, cnn, malone, washington. the news continues now with randi kaye. this is the bill, says president obama. the question now is whether the american jobs act will ever be turned into law and how fast. as you may have seen live right here on cnn, president t...

They said the democrat controlled senate failed to pass changes in 2009 when it had a veto-proof majority. republican advisor karl rove said they have little chance now. >> the democrats couldn't pass it when they had overwhelming margin in the congress why should they expect to pass it in divided congress now? >> reporter: it will avoid public sector layoff, tax cut for small businesses that hire or give workers a raise, or money for road and school repairs which house majority leader can' eric cantor said stimulus spending, we've been there, done that. it will complicate the job of the super...

They said the democrat controlled senate failed to pass changes in 2009 when it had a veto-proof majority. republican advisor karl rove said they have little chance now. >> the democrats couldn't pass it when they had overwhelming margin in the congress why should they expect to pass it in divided congress now? >> reporter: it will avoid public sector layoff, tax cut for small businesses that hire or give workers a raise, or money for road and school repairs which house majority leader can' eric cantor said stimulus spending, we've been there, done that. it will complicate the job of the super...