allyson and mr. grijalva for their leadership and the progressive caucus and also lynn woolsey and bas-relief for consistently leading the progressive caucus. this bill is very disappointing for a number of reasons. i cannot understand how we could walk out of a deal to raise the limits for the debt ceiling, at not having gotten any revenues in the bill in all we have our cuts. i am reminded that this is a very fragile economy peeving it is fragile and so many ways. first of all, the unemployment rates are astronomical. we have 9.2% in this country, and in the minority communities, 17% plus. some of these communities, the unemployment rates are 35%, 40%. when you add to that the loss of wealth by latinos, 63% loss in household wealth, and with african americans, over 50% loss in household wealth, we need to be talking about stimulating the economy. just thi

allyson klein is the "education week" staff writer. greg campeau is the national k- 12 education writer for usa today. allyson, let's start with you. >> you said that you are going to offer states exemptions from the no child left behind in exchange for certain conditions. you of not said what they are. >> we believe that the law in its current form is broken. it is way too punitive, lots of ways to fail, and no rewards for success. it is very punitive, very top down from washington and it has led to a dumbing down of standards. the law of the land has some money has so many disincentives and that does not make sense to me. what we're going to do is do creative and invented things around principal and evaluation support. we want to give them a lot more flexibility. we're focused on doing the right thing, showing courage, raising standards. we want to get out of the way and let the move. we will hold them accountable for results, but great changes have always come at the local level, not from me or anyone in washington. >> can you talk

point twenty four seconds to round out the podium behind winner and mildly moncho and second placed allyson felix and another russian athlete and then you know could have a shop finished fifth. elsewhere also pistorius went out of the four hundred metres at the semifinal stage still and the story for months from the south african who is the first double amputee to see possible world finals for able bodied athletes. you know which i'm very excited for. it's been a great experience coming out it's. not only just from an explosion of which this is a learning curve we are going. memories of will stay with me through supported school to the trough and it's just been a big decision. hope that you sort of have an opportunity to run in the field well . now david plotz has named his final russians scored for that swept eleven european basketball championships before the team had a goal for wednesday's tournaments start in lithuania and bay styles that might be a must go for and andre can expect that and because it seems that they'll have something new teammates as well and you know good small forwar

john allyson didn't even make the decision. he heard about it after it was made.was the right decision. so they didn't blow up the world and they didn't blow up when the world blew up because of independent thinking. the next dalia was productivity. probably nothing needs to be said about that and honesty. of course bankers are supposed to be honest they are not supposed to have their hands in the cookie jar but let me tell you, dishonesty brigades business especially when you lie at the beginning about what the purpose of the business is. honesty pervades businesses when you promote and give power to and perks to and looked the other way when somebody bends the rules and happens to make a lot of money that year for the company that doesn't happen at bb&t. the next virtue is integrity. it's one thing to say fancy words but let me tell you how they put this in practice. everybody here remember the supreme court kilo decision, kelo? the ability to seize private property and hand it over to law to use it for government use like to build a freeway but to hand it over

john allyson didn't even make the decision. he heard about it after it was made. was the right decision. so they didn't blow up the world and they didn't blow up when the world blew up because of independent thinking. the next dalia was productivity. probably nothing needs to be said about that and honesty. of course bankers are supposed to be honest they are not supposed to have their hands in the cookie jar but let me tell you, dishonesty brigades business especially when you lie at the beginning about what the purpose of the business is. honesty pervades businesses when you promote and give power to and perks to and looked the other way when somebody bends the rules and happens to make a lot of money that year for the company that doesn't happen at bb&t. the next virtue is integrity. it's one thing to say fancy words but let me tell you how they put this in practice. everybody here remember the supreme court kilo decision, kelo? the ability to seize private property and hand it over to law to use it for government use like to build a freeway but to hand it over