arnie duncan talking about the program common core approved in 5 states and the district of columbia.ing the moms who were complaining about this, he says this. they realize that, quote, all of the sudden their child isn't as brilliant as they thought and their school isn't as good as they thought it was. has a problem with the white suburban mother belief. late today mr. duncan said he regretted the statement and its clumsy phrasing. joining me now, dana laesh and julie riginski former adviser to senator frank lautenberg. let me start with you. you home school your children. common core is a big deal with parents who have children in public schools because it is changing the way we test our children and in some ways educate them. so it's controversial. tell us why the secretary of education seems to be so upset with people like you. >> this thing about arnie duncan is he needs to meet the many, many diverse families who provide more diversity, education than he realizes. we home school our kids. i have two boys, aged 12 and 8. at a certain anyone they decide if they would rather go t

education secretary arnie duncan regrets what he calls clumsy phrasing.n monday politico reported he said quote it's fascinating to me that some of the push back is coming from sort of white suburban moms who all of a sudden their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were. he was referring to the critics of common core state standards being implemented in 45 states and d.c. the white house is staying mum on the conspiracy theory on the death of jfk. jay carney didn't say if president obama believed harvey oswald acted alone. secretary of state john kerry said recently he believed oswald had help. >>> and talk about bragging rights, arizona congresswoman kristin sinema finished an "iron man" competition. she's the first sitting member of congress to complete the event. congratulations. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> right now we want to dig a little bit deeper into these presidential poll numbers. good morning to you. >> good morning. i hope you're having a better week than the president. >> these numbers some of the worst th

as assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnie's duncan's primary advisor. before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on all policy matters. she was also passionate about ending this issue of bullying and bringing everyone together to stop this disturbing trend so please welcome assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. as i said, our moderator is not always our lieutenant governor, of course he needs to introduction -- no, i get to say something. i get to say something. as everyone in this room knows, youngest mayor in 100 years, right? youngest mayor in 100 years

. >>> arnie duncan is apologizing for calling out white suburban moms.he president's secretary of education said his phrasing was off last week when he criticized certain opponents of his stricter standardized testing. addressing school superintendents friday, duncan singled out those white suburban moms who are opposing higher standards. he said, lower test scores are showing them their child wasn't as brilliant as they thought they were. now he's telling cnn that was a bit clumsy. >> i think my wording, my phasing was a little clumsy, and i apologize for that. my basic point, this is now a long conversation s we want to prepare all children to be successful in a globally competitive work force. so many of our children, not just in inner cities, but in suburban communities, i think, aren't getting the education they need and deserve. so i was challenging the state leaders there to do a better job of communicating with parents across the board, letting them know how important higher standards are, but what it takes for all of us to work to achieve those

and arnie duncan over at education worked with a team to see what we could do to simplify it, and it made a big difference. and that's part of the process that we've got to go through. and, in fact, if we can get some focus groups and we sit down with actual users and see, you know, how well is this working, what would improve it, what part of it didn't you understand, that all, i think, is part of the -- what we're going to be working on in the weeks ahead? >> what about the ancillary criticism you hear on -- >> yeah. you know, i -- i've got to say i meet with an awful lot of folks, and i talk to an awful lot of folks every day, and i have lunches with ceos and i.t. venture capitalists and labor leaders you know, a whole bunch of life. and i think it's fair to say that -- a good track record on working with folks on technology and i.t. from our kwam pain, both in 2008 and 2012, did a pretty darn good job on that. so it's not that -- you know, the idea that we have access or interested in people's ideas, isn't accurate. what is true that, as i said before, our i.t. systems, how we pu

. >> before we get more in to that, let me read a quote from our education secretary arnie duncan, regardingtick in graduation rates. to 78.2% in 2010. drop out rates, still, quote, unsustainbly high for a knowledge-based economy. and still unseparably high in our caisson american, latino and native american communities. real world solutions, one of the challenges for all students but particularly students from minority communities, poor communities, it's making this make sense, making it relatable. >> right. >> and that's what you are trying to do. >> that is what we are doing. so there was a 2009 survey that found that 61% of middle school students said that they would rather take out the garbage than do their math homework. >> wow. >> when you ask students why wyoming and as a former teacher i saw it as well. they typically say i don't know what it nineteens it's random skills to memorize and rejudger date and i don't know when i will ever use it. how we are trying to help is to provide teachers with lessons that help them teach, you know, proportions through away that's going to engage s

last friday, arnie duncan told school superintendent's in richmond, virginia that opposition to commontandards was coming from "white suburban moms, who all of a sudden their child isn't at brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were." he apologized in a blog, saying in part "i used some crumb as i phrasing that i regret, because it detracted from an important conversation about preparing all of america's students for success." >> a consultant predicted problems with healthcare.gov six months before it was launched, saying the administration was warned in late march that the website would mag function. the analysis said the system had not been properly tested. administration officials have acknowledged that there were red flags. >> the administration says healthcare.gov is working better, but a new poll shows americans aren't warming to the website. congress wants to know if all that personal information is secure. here to tell us more is tracy joining us from washington. good morning to you. there's a group that wants president o

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a story from the associated press about the education secretary arnie duncan , writing to the educationecretary continued to face criticism over remarks to dismiss white suburban moms for academichigher standards. mr. duncan has consistently showed little patience for critics of the common core educational standards being implemented in 45 states and the district of columbia. but his remarks, as reported by politico, what a step further and add elements of race and class. it is fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, there child is not as brilliant as they thought they were and their school is not quite as good as they thought they were, and that is pretty scary. friday, you bet your house and where you live is everything on, my child going to be prepared. that can be a punch in the gut. it is said he chose his words poorly in trying to make his point. it is a globally competitive workforce. maryland up next -- marilyn up next from illinois. caller: i would like to go back to the gettysburg address where it says that

arnie duncan, a close friend of the president's former head of chicago school, he put a fine quote oneir school isn't quite as good as they thought and that's pretty scary. >> i love how he uses the words it's fascinating to me. >> white suburban moms. what does race have to do with this? >> and it's parent all across the country who are outraged by this man, these new standards. have you heard about some of the standards? you haven't if you haven't turned into what common core does. among some of the testing standards, we talked about this right before the break that two plus two equals four in the normal world, unless you live on jupiter or something. but if you answer six, you won't be graded poorly as a result of it. but because you tried to get the correct answer, you'll still be given -- >> it's all about the process, if you can explain it away, if you can explain how you got to six, you would be okay. last year they were slipping the real statement into worksheets. so it just seems to be one thing after the next after the next and maybe that is why parents are outraged about th