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This president and this department of education there is a risk they will intrude and they have when it comes to race to the top. what we should say in reauthorization of the k-12 law that may have been on the floor in the house of representatives is to say the federal government has no role directly or indirectly no role in the creation of curriculum and content, no access to student i.d. or student information. the role of the federal government, if there is any, is to provide incentives for more school choice. take the money and if states want to innovate give them the money to create their...

Curriculum and content. the federal government should have no access to student i.d. or student information. the role of the federal government, if there's any, is to provide7 incentives for more school choice. >> real quickly just your reaction. he hit a lot of different segments. >> he is reverencings common core which is something that conservatives don't like. this is something that jeb bush has championed in the past. you'll hear him talk and he has started to talk about higher standards and not really focused on federal government making these standards but something that comes from the ...

Programs. we will get into examples in a program. how are they able to monitor kids' information? >> what happened is a texas two-step. the federal law prohibits the federal government from collecting housing data bases on student information. we are talking about highly personal information. but where there's a will, there's a way around the constitution, and around statutory prohibitions i suppose is the thinking. so in the 2009 stimulus bill, what congress said was that if a state wants stimulus money, it has to obligate itself, promise to create these massive data bases. >> so let's be cle...