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Feel their parents can walk to school, pay out on the street and be out on the front porch. thank you. >> the sumer turned out to be safer for kids, and two things that made a difference is police work and summer programs. >> i like reading. >> you have to spend too much time passing legislation and stuff. >> that's okay. at night, i'm reading a biography. i read right before i go to bed for an hour. >> you've got to do it. >> i've got to make the kids do what i do, one way or the other. >> for the mayor, there's an even bigger challenge ahead, when school starts in a few weeks.

And why are they going to learn? they'll be so focused on wanting to hide that they're not going to speak up in class or stand out and they're going to shri . shrivel. we know with brains that are developing they need the nutrition just to learn, be present, and be able to be most effective in a classroom. all of that together is going to make them shirk away from school. >> tom, it is also about the money, isn't it. i mean, you can't cut $8 billion out of the s.n.a.p. program and expect that it's going to be everything okay in our school systems. >> no. i mean, there are some programs here --...

Commitments for college affordability and accessibility. some of the things would be make test prep for colleges, making that accessible to americans. and for students looking for college, it will best match them where they'll best able to graduate. there's remedial program, tutoring, mentoring and trying to throughout the summers with summer programs to bridge that gap as some students fall behind. it falls into the agenda president barack obama has laid out for this year where he talked about wanting to increase the disparity between the rich and poor. he's enlisting higher officials. he's t...

Biggest concern, there are books in these schools. if i could put a book in every kid's hand, i would be really excited. >> but the reality of what's happening with budgets right now, how do we make the education system more accessible. and we're ignoring the poorest kids, we're ignoring them on multiple levels. >> but we're not spending less money on them. per-student spending on education, k-12 in this country has gone up by 2 1/2 times while results have been like this. >> but we've had this debate -- granted, but you and i have had this debate before about all of the invisible spending tha...

See the gaps growing between kids coming from affluent homes versus poor children. and they have -- >> it's not the president's job. >> i disagree. that's why i think, that is definition of a liberal. i think the government can help out in this situation. and help the kids who are falling behind. and would benefit from being in summer programs. i just don't think the pre-k thing should be universal. >> bret: meanwhile, the sequestration is looming. a couple of days away. so we wanted to talk about this. judge, as always, thank you for coming down. >> pleasure, bret. >> bret: panel, thank you. ...