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Meeting by 5 00 so if we can be aware for the time so leave time for questions and discusses. Mr. Mires, we want to welcome you. Thomas mires, did especially tea director of work force development. The only thing i wanted to add today is weve reached out to 500 employers this summer to have individuals, youth individuals work in various occupations and for various employers this summer. The outreach started last week with the mayors invitation letter and were following up with employers this week all the way through the resource face on may 10th as well as the job challenge on may 21st. Well c...

more than 2.5 million homes and businesses are still without power. the death toll has risen to at least 43. and thousands of people have evacuated from flooded neighborhoods and communities. yet, flood advisories are still in place for portions of seven states. one of the towns hardest hit is little falls, new jersey, along the passaic river. mary snow is there with the latest. mary, this is the worst flooding in a century there. are things improving at all? >> reporter: it's hard to believe that looking at the river behind me things are improving. take a closer look at the passai...

Much of our report focuses on what higher performing countries in europe do, and there, let me give you the example, the highest performing country in europe is finland and in finland, as in most of the other central and northern european countries, by the age of 16, anywhere between 40 and 70% of kids are choosing to be in programs that mix classroom learning and work-base learning. that's what we think americans need to look at. >> mr. schwartz, i find the study fascinating. we have so much work to do in education. there's so much more i want to discuss with you and this conversation. i woul...