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Let's turn to bob shrum democratic strategist and professor at nyu. i want to show you the live shot, rick santorum in fargo, north dakota speaking live. he just said he wants to take state and federal money out of education. now, i didn't know he would say this, my analysis is this guy is going big time radical. bob, what is the strategy, what is happening? >> that is insane, that is not just radical it's insane. anybody who is in college, anybody who wants their kid to go to college, anybody who wants their kids to have good science programs, doesn't want allstate and federal money out of ed...

And literacy testing. how do we make sure there are robust science programs, because this is when we have to hook them and not middle school or high school. >> you got applause. >> i am the colorado state teacher of the year, and i am here with my colleagues who are the state teachers of the year, who are on the cutting edge of innovation every single day. it's important that we look at the innovation happening inside and outside of the classroom, so as we talk about the students, we are talking about multiple measures of achievement and multiple ways to bring excellence to the classroom. >> t...

Changes in science and technology are a huge part of any readiness gap that exists. that's something they are saying we have to be mindful of as well. and then this one says i am not against students on facebook or twitter, it's real world. how can we use it as a tool? to that point we had somebody tweet who said how delighted we were with your teacher on stage that talked about using skype to connect to the student who had leukemia. that was wonderful and got a lot of response for that and want to see more people doing it. 2,600 messages so far. keep them coming. >> and over to tamron hall. >...

That's something they are saying we have to be mindful of as well. one more we want to share with you. this one says i'm not against students on facebook or twitter. it's real world. how can we use it as a tool? to that point we had somebody tweet who said how delighted we were with your teacher on stage who talked about using skype to connect to the student who had leukemia. they said they thought that was wonderful. we got a lot of response for that, and they want to see more people doing it. 2,600 messages so far. keep them coming. >> all right. rehema ellis. over to tamron hall. >> we're l...

Lily is an elementary schoolteacher and vice president of the national education association. lily, how do you get the most out of school as a parent? >> you know, go up to the school's website, take a look at all of the programs. there's an awful lot that's being offered in public schools right now that nobody knows about. we don't have a big advertising budget. but we've got ap classes, international baca lorrate classes, foreign languages, science programs, afterschool music programs. there's an amazing array of things out there. a lot of it is on the chopping block. the more parents who ar...