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The bargaining table and one of the most influential of these groups is right here in los angeles. it's known as parent revolution. two years ago it actually helped pass legislation here in california known as the parent trigger law. giving parents the authority to force change through petition. everything from firing teachers to turning public schools into charters. >> right now an education is with power. you have the teachers' unions and the district administrators, making a lot of decisions and they are all affecting kids and the one group that doesn't have a strong voice and an actual pla...

And from her fifth grade education and her $3 an hour put me through some of the best schools here in washington, d.c. and johns hopkins ultimately. and i recognize what he's saying, be ut you cannot paint with a broad brush, because people find a way to make it through and do for themselves. sure, you have some who don't. but that is not the vast majority of what's going on with the poor. the poor are struggling to get out of poverty and they're using education. and this is the break down with our system as a whole. we fail them when we have our kids stuck in a poor, underperforming school, w...

Answer. listen. >> have the public schools in michigan gotten better? >> i don't know. overall, i can't say overall they have all gotten better. >> the whole state is not doing well. >> well there are certainly lots of pockets where the students are doing well. >> have you seen the really bad schools, try to figure out what they're doing? >> i have not -- i have not -- i have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming. >> maybe you should. >> maybe i should. yes. >> doug, there are questions about whether the president's being well served by his cabinet here and that whether so...