we all want the graduation rate to improve. and we want students to have skills for work or college after they graduate. one of the most successful programs in the country today is teach for america a unique corps of brilliant young leaders from america's top universities, who give their time and talent as teachers in schools that need them most. these teachers help spur innovation and creativity in instruction that makes the entire system better. teach for america has helped make a difference in the lives of hundreds of nevada's students. but we can do more. i am proposing a new investment in teach for america to help recruit, train, develop, and place top teacher and leadership talent in nevada. i am also asking that nevada make a firm commitment to another national program with proven results. in the last year, i used available funding to pilot the jobs for america's graduates initiative in seven nevada schools. jag helps prevent dropouts by putting a specialist in the school to work with the most at-risk students. the work

of the new graduation requirements schedule to take place in 2014. the impact of these changes for these students, disproportionately la teen no and african american and how well they will live their lives. it is not about (inaudible) but finding the viable ways for them to succeed to not become statistics in the system. we realize that there are challenges in implementing the requirements for this, this has remained a priority for the pac this year. pac members and i have been participating in the new graduation requirement task force to align our efforts with community and district staff. for the task force we believe that we can make the most impact of bringing the parent voices about the discussion of the systems and structures to support student success in immediating the requirements and to help to identify ways to improve communication with students and families about these matters. this past, earlier this month, it was announced that the task force and the district is in the process of hiring a superintendent for extended learning that will i

. >> reporter: a graduate >> reporter: a graduate student, 22-year-old astrid will be $160,000 in debt before she lands her first job. >> i feel like that number doesn't really process in my head yet. it's just an imaginary number i know i have to pay off. >> reporter: she is one of the 26 million americans saddled with a ballooning student loan. like her classmates, she worried without a job after graduation, she'll become part of the record number of former students who are now defaulting or delinquent paying back loans. >> honestly, i don't know how i'm going to do it. >> reporter: with college costs on the rise, student loan debt is at an all-time high. topping $870 billion surpassing credit card debt and even auto loans. now a new study shows one-third of former students are considered risky borrowers. graduates who don't pay back their bills. >> reporter: as many as half recent graduates are unemployed or more than likely under employed. the problem feeds on itself. that's what we're dealing with. that's why this is such an issue for the whole economy. >> reporter: with the avera

, and if they do graduate they are graduating with too much debt. >> at what point is there going totipping point? at what point do you think, mark, like a self-corrective cycle where people realize, you know what? it's not worth it to go to college because the kind of pay that i'm going to get later in life, the kind of job that i'm going to get later in life as a result of college may not be possibly be worth all the debt that i'll have to pay back. >> well, right now we're not really at a tipping point because most students are able to repay their loans. as long as your total student loan debt at graduation is less than your annual income you can afford to pay back the loans in ten years or less. it's when you overborrow that you're going to struggle and i would say perhaps 10% of students are struggling to pay their loans these days. now in 20 years, we may very well have a higher education bubble bursting and colleges failing because they can't attract the students. >> too many people going to college? >> no. i think that especially along low-income students we don't have enough

college graduates if the cost of college is beyond the reach of montana families. let's not kid ourselves -- as cautious as this body is about raising taxes, when tuition increases because higher education isn't adequately funded, that's a tax on tens of thousands of working families across our state. my budget includes an agreement to freeze tuition across the university system. i urge you to honor it. many college students today have -- [applause] many college students today have recently returned home from serving our country in the armed forces. college graduates if the cost of college is beyond the reach of montana families. let's not kid ourselves -- as cautious as this body is about raising taxes, when tuition increases because higher education isn't adequately funded, that's a tax on tens of these soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and women must know that our state will do everything we can to help them succeed. this morning, i went to the airport and welcomed home 45 soldiers from the montana national guard who had just spent a year in afghanistan. i told

when you graduate from college and you don't get a job or have just graduated, another daughter in colleger friends are deeply concerned about the fact that over half of them, over half of those graduates last year are either unemployed or underemployed. that's unprecedented over the last decade. it had never been so high. we are talking about over a million students. and on top of it, christine, that is really what is so tragic. they're burdened with massive debts. over a trillion dollars is now the college loan debt, higher than credit card debt. >> unlike the resources to weather it out, wait for a good job and connections of a network to get into a good job or good company, you have these kids taking part-time jobs, jobs that don't require a college education and they're being sidelined in the service industry. they're losing that first rung on the ladder. is it the lost generation? >> it's actually worse than that. it is we who have failed them. we have failed them. as you look around, the whole debate after the election has not been jobs. during the campaign it was jobs, jobs, jobs b

graduates who don't pay back their bills. >> reporter: as. as half recent graduates are unemployed or more than likely under employed. the problem feeds on itself. that's why this is such an issue for the whole economy. >> reporter: with 9 average student more than $27,000 in debt, more than a million r50e67b9 graduates wracked up an astonishing $100,000 in loans. >> a bunch of people who go to the school have that kind of money, but a lot of us don't. it's pretty difficult. >> reporter: next year astrid will get her diploma and her first student loan bill. >> i do have a sense of fear of, like, what am i going to do which i graduate? >> reporter: she's one of many college seniors worried about real-life lessons in economics that come after graduation. migel all all mall gere, los angeles. >>> and gas prices shot up again. aaa says they're out in $3.90 on average in california. up noorn 30 cents in's last month. nationally the average price is $3.51. an increase of more than 20 cents in the last month. >>> when we come back here tonight, the

>> i have a son who graduated from university. i have a niece who graduated last year and another niece is considering going to law school. i have been looking at the economics of going to law school. they are out of kilter. the profession is not to be a profession just for the rich. we must have a profession that looks like our society in every respect. there are a number of things the aba is doing in that regard. we have a resolution that is coming up in three weeks in toronto at our annual meeting. it tells people going to law school exactly what they are in for and you need to understand that the accreditation part of the american bar association is under a completely separate organization as a result of an agreement we have with the department of justice and department of education, so that we don't have any antitrust issues. that is an independent group. we at the american bar association are asking law schools to prepare for -- prepare 10 simple questions about what it costs to go to law school, how many of their students a

for ben so that his mother could see him graduate.he superintendent of the school system even was there to help present the diploma. >> on behalf of the northwest local school district board of education i declare this to be an official ceremony for the class of 2013. >> the superintendent declared it an official graduation so that his mom saw the official moment that he received his diploma. >> this diploma goes to benjamin matthew lynabury. >> it's like the real thing in there, a real ceremony. >> you're going to see the moment that ben throws his cap. >> catch the cap. >> then you'll see the moment when ben goes to his mother. >> i graduated, mom. >> i love that there's such a sense of community and family within the school that they chose to do this for ben. >> i don't think we understand how important it is for our parents to see us accomplish these milestones. this is the world to them. they have raised you to get to this point. >> less than 24 hours after this ceremony, jennifer lynabury lost her battle to cancer. and so in her

they're much more likely to graduate high school. they're a third less likely to be arrested as a juvenile. unfortunately, though, montana's dead last in the nation, 50th out of 50, in state investment in early childhood education. and to me, that's unacceptable. we can't expect head start and other federally-funded programs to carry the entire burden. some local communities have stepped in to make sure these youngsters are given a better chance. great falls, one example, they saw that a modest investment in a pre-k program led to a dramatic shut in kindergarten -- shift in kindergarten readiness, setting the kids in this state on a much better path for the future. other communities across our state have seen the same. as a first step, i encourage this body to expand the proven stars to quality program and make the long overdue investment in school readiness. i've laid out a plan that'll create a hundred more high quality early childhood programs, getting 600 more families and a thousand more children ready for school. each year. it'

graduates of any state in the union. we know today we are producing 40,000 computer science undergrads a year, according to bls. we need 120,000 a year. such as to give you a little bit of from our perspective of where the jobs are, also our cortex, 40% are not engineers. they're not computer science folks. so when you look at what microsoft needs, it's a lot of what the panelists have talked about and i would add one, team building skills and working within a team. we do everything by team at microsoft. easy can't work within a team under their how smart you are, or how fascinating -- you will not be successful at the end of the day. and so really important to look at what we're doing, not only at the college level but in high schools and all up and down the spectrum. we've only got nine states in the united states who represent, who actually look at computer science as a court agreed in high school. nine states. 41 states take computer science and look at it like jim. we have 42000 high schools in the united states. 21

so, let me first start by saying that when she graduated from the university of tennessee, she graduated with a b.s. in political science, a b.a. in economics, a b.a. in spanish, a b.a. in humanities. you were the dewey houser, i'm not sure how you did it, annual road scholar finalist on top of that. she also graduated from the goldman school of public policy which is the -- receiving a master's degree from the school our colleague supervisor chiu graduated from. that was just the beginning of her career. jamie has worked for three foundations. she has been a leader in the philanthropic world, conducting research in both the public and private sector. she is currently the senior [speaker not understood] officer with the shkawa foundation responsible for grant making in youth development, leadership, housing development. she managed $10 million in grants on behalf of that foundation. for those of us who have to figure out how to spend scarce dollars, thank you for that. but in addition to that, in addition to serving on the northern california grant makers board and the bay area of blacks

most graduate and go on to college. admission to seed is by lottery, open to any family in the district willing to take a chance. >> girl 41. >> yeah! >> this family was one of the few who won the lottery, a $35,000-per-year education paid for by private and government money. >> boy 12. >> yay! >> only 1/3 of the over 200 or so kids who applied heard their number called. with the child's future at stake, emotions ran high. >> 38. >> the grants were another family who won the chance to change their child's life. >> yeah! >> when that number was called, describe that feeling. >> it was just shocking. i didn't think that was gonna happen. listen, when he said "38," i didn't hear anything but joy. >> why does this mean so much to you? >> it's called opportunity. we've never had that before. so why not grab it if you can? here, you know, the sky is the limit. >> and how about you? got a big smile. is this good news? >> yes. >> seed is the brainchild of raj vinnakota and eric adler, two former businessmen who quit their jobs

liz: graduation in february. yes it is happening here at cuyahoga community college where goldman sachs picked this as one of 11 opportunities all across the nation to help small business can companies, they're not startups. these are already planted the seed. they have done a lot of heavy lifting. they need a little real world help. goldman sachs created an entire curriculum. today 36 graduates here in the cleveland area got their diplomas. more importantly they got the intellectual property, that knowledge, that only comes from people who have really had the experience. so coming up a fox business long-range sit-down interview with gary cohn, the president and chief operating officer of goldman sachs. a cleveland guy himself. he will be talking to us about what goldman really hopes to achieve here and it is pretty interesting. everyone,000 mile journey starts with one step. some of these companies with this goldman sachs idea have started hiring one, two, three, employees. you combine that, put it together in t

graduates the skills they need for lifelong learning. we need an innovative solution. elect motivated high school students work toward the high school diploma and to your associates degree at the same time. we can make this sort of early access to affordable college credit. there is ongoing challenge of college completion. you have met with them. i have met with them. business leaders say we are not producing enough college graduates, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. we must do a better job of getting more of our students through college. [applause] we are seeing the things that work. our community colleges are delivering results. last year they graduated 49% more students than they were five years ago. that is a pretty impressive progress. they have increased reduction. this year i'm asking you to increase their funding so they can do even more. we need to pick up the pace at our four year colleges. here are things we can do together. we can redesign college curriculum and more courses. we can rework financial a

>> i have a son who graduated from university. i have a niece who graduated last year and another niece is considering going to law school. i have been looking at the economics of going to law school. they are out of kilter. the profession is not to

graduates of any state of the union. we need 120,000 computer science graduates per year.ourt tech -- 40% of our quartet able are not engineers. look at what microsoft needs. it is a log of what competitors have talked about. i would add teambuilding skills. we do everything by teams at microsoft. if you cannot work with theme -- within 18, you will not be -- if you cannot work within 18,, you will not be successful. look at what we are doing not only at the college level but in high schools and across the spectrum. we have nine states in the u.s. who look at computer sciences as a core degree in high school. for doing state take computer sciences and look at it like jim. we have 42,000 high schools in the u.s. 2100 teach ap computer science. if we do not look at our feeder network and what we are doing to bring more people in, to counsel them about the right choices, to let them know where the jobs are because once you are a senior in high school, it is too late. if you have not done the work, because you have the ability to solve problems, we will continue to have these

one of your goals is to see them graduate? >> the goal toys see them graduate. we exist to make sure that students from low income backgrounds will actually graduate from college. >> it's an opportunity that everyone should have. >>> now let's talk about the controversial parent trigger law. parents in california are the first in the nation tos 82 the new law. moms and dads forcing change at a poor performing school. many more parents are poised to follow suit if advocates get their way. >> we don't think of it actually as a new law, we think of it as a new paradigm, like an entirely new way of thinking about public education and education reform. it isn't about these false choices that have dominated the debate about education for the good part of the last decade and frankly have gotten us into this problem in the first place, charter schools versus district schools or education reformers versus teachers unions or even democrats versus republicans. it's about giving parents power over the education of their own children. >> but you have to agree that this is pr

today, many graduates face massive student loans. we must give students more information about the costs and benefits of the student loans they are taking out. all of these measures are key to helping grow the economy. we will not be able to sustain a vibrant middle class unless we solve all her -- solve our debt problem. money borrowed his money that is not being invested to create jobs. that is one reason why many businesses are not hiring. the president wants to blame the deficit on president bush, but president obama created more debt and water years than his presidents are -- that his presidents are dead in eight. -- than his predecessor did in eight. our programs for spending authority locked in. one of these is medicare, which is especially important to me. it provided my father with hair he -- care he needed to batter -- battle cancer, and it pays for the care mime mother receives right now. i would never support changes to medicare that would hurt seniors like my mother. anybody in favor of changing it is in favor of bankrup

focuses on high school graduation, college graduation, full time work and reconnecting with job traininging out of high school. joining us is the executive director for the see forever foundation. part of the coalition. miss murphy, good to have you here. >> sobering statistics released today. let me read off a few to set this up. only 6 out of 10 young people are graduating high school. and 10,000 low income people aren't in school or working at all. here's the question. you take statistics like that, what does that tell you and how do you try to change that? >> i think that's the first place to start is to be able to look at statistics that give us a bench mark for our students are. what it does is help us understand what kids need help and what help they need hchlt and because we're all in this together, the deputy mayor's for education office has convened a group of constituents across the city, across public nonpublic community based organizations to come together to then develop the strategies that can help those kids get over the hurdles they are facing to be connected. >> and i g

our catholic schools, graduation rate for high school students is 99%.se graduates 98% of them go to college or accept into colleges and universities. with 234 million dollars in scholarships just last year with the class of 2012. our elementary school and middle schools are outside -- our students are always in the top. underscoring the excellent education, the education of the whole person. >> another thing about that, not only the wonderful graduation rate and of course college attendance but after college, almost 100% continue to get back to the -- give back to the community. >> absolutely. research shows that students who attend catholic schools, catholic elementary schools, high schools, even universities go on to be highly responsible citizens. very active in church, in communities, in charities. take leadership positions across the nation. so we are very proud of our graduates because not only of what is happening while they are here but really reaching the goal because as adults, later parents and guarantees they continue to pass that legacy of

i will introduce tyrone hopper, a graduate from the father alfred center, st. anthony's drug and rehab program. he presently works for the city and county of san francisco and this year will graduate with a ba in criminal justice. [ applause ] tyrone freelances as an interpreter in spanish including on-call assignments for the united nations, and he expects to be certified in mandarin next year. please welcome tyrone. [ applause ] >> good afternoon everybody. i have to say i'm a bit overwhelmed today to be sharing the same stage with nancy pelosi, ed lee, susan coretand to look out here and see this sea of humanity and have people cheering for me. [ applause ] i'm overwhelmed and i'm humbled because just four years, nine months and six days ago, i was smoking crack. that is right. i was a drug addict. and almost five years later, here i am. miracles do happen! [ applause ] 60 years ago father alfred had a vision. it started with his compassion for those in need. the vision was and still is for those in need to come out of poverty, and to thrive. this vision sin

students who are least likely to graduate from high school let alone college.f nelson is the co-founder and c.e.o. of one goal. >> we're taking underperforming students that typically have a less than 10% chance of earning a bachelor's degree and right now 85% of our alumni in college are persisting. >> so we have approximately 40 minutes to get this done. >> reporter: one goal focuses on these students because nationally only 8% of ninth graders in low-income communities are expected to graduate from college by the age 25. that's in stark contrast to students from the highest income families where 32% will finish college in that same time. nelson says the cornerstone of one goal's methodology begins with recruiting and training exceptional teache who in turn identify underperforming students with the least opportunity and the most potential. >> we believe and have seen empirical evidence that teachers matter most in education reform. and when we got started building one goal we realized that nationally and locally there were no college access or persistent pre

this is a graduate student project is how it began.s us now from houston texas, thanks for coming on to "the young turks." >> thanks for having me on, michael. >> howdy outbound that? >> thank you. michael: i want to know, this did begin four as a graduate student project. you wanted to see what the effect on gun violence would be if everybody had a gun in a certain part in a small sampling in your city there. is this more of an agenda hiding behind a graduate paper or is this exactly what that is? >> the implementation, what i'm actually doing with the non-profit is not part of my studies at the university of houston. my cap stone project was writing a white paper or a policy proposal on what a private response to deter crime through increased firearms would look like. i've since taken that idea and kind of run with it, so my university wants me to make it very clear that they don't have anything to do at all with me handing out the fire articles. i'm in my final semester of the public administration program. i'm a policy analyst at h

my older son graduated from town in 2010 and my youngest is currently a 7th grader at town school. after my son -- my older son graduated from town school, ron, my husband and i were very pleased with the academic excellence but we also were surprised by a lesson of community from town school. for my 12 years and counting, because i have one more year there, at town school, i have seen the commitment to the community -- let me start again. i have seen the commitment to the community in various ways. the teachers, the staff, the parents continue to support our boys from kindergarten to 8th grate. our kindergarteners have made sandwiches for the homeless, collected blankets for the homeless as well and the 2nd and 3rd-graders have a program where they would go into the presidio to clear invasive plants in the presidio and we have parent support with the bake sale to help the tsunami victims in japan. as i reflect back from my son last year, as a 6th grader, he and a group of boys were making bracelets and they produced enough profit that they gave it to the kieva program that makes l

henley putnam university has a graduation rate of just over 50%.port called for stringent oversight, but so far, no government action has been taken. the academy of art lost its eligibility to receive state grant money when its graduation rate fell below 30%. still, it can get gi bill money. >> historically, we average 34% graduation rate, according to the california commission, and 30% is what they expect. >> reporter: still, advocates urge veterans to seek out cheaper options, like community college. the transfer rates to four-year colleges are among the highest in the nation. classes go for just $31 a unit. >> it's an affordable option for them. >> reporter: in cupertino, allen martin, kpix 5. >> and we want to point out that over the years, employees of kpix 5 have been both instructors and students a -- at the academy of art. >>> the weather is going to be changing next week drastically. >> it's going to be a whole different season basically coming up next week. but the season right now certainly isn't winter. so change is coming. it's going t

he graduated in 2006. he lived in mesa until he lived to san jose. we've posted the federal complaint. just look under the hot topics section. >>> fairfield is a community in mourning tonight. friends are expected to gather in just about 30 minutes to hold a candlelight vigil for 13- year-old janell conway allen. you will recall his body was found last week close to a park. this morning police announced a death in her killing. police are still withholding key details about the case. noelle. >> reporter: frank and so is the district attorney. the d.a. held a quick media conference here at the solano news conference to address charges against this man. his name is anthony lamar jones. police arrested him early this morning. within the last hour or so, the ktvu crew that was at the house believed to be belonged to jones saw several investigators pulling out computers and items from this home. there's a lot of questions about investigations and very few details. >> the murder of a 13-year-old girl assaults the very core of who we are and what we stand fo

in the spring of 2012, he graduated from oregon state university also in engineering. he won a number of awards and honors and even served as a nasa-daughter and turned. tragedy just off the campus. it all in a deadly mix of guns and mental illness. >> around 1:00, we heard 10 gunshots. >> prince george's county police say he fired the shots at his roommates, killing a 22-year-old student and wounding another. he went into the backyard and killed himself. >> detectives discovered a 9 millimeter handgun next to his body. they also discovered a bag of weapons to include a baseball bat, the chevy, a fully loaded semi-automatic handgun and ammunition. >> police say the 9 millimeter pistol was purchased legally in baltimore county. a bizarre of circumstances are around 9:30 of the morning. his roommates came outside and talk with him about getting water to put out the fire. as they walked toward the house -- >> one of the students noticed the suspect reaching into his waistband for a gun. >> that student was able to run to a neighbor's house. the other collapsed and the fro

as you're aware the graduation requirements are more rigorous. due to the changes many of the students are missing one or more classes to graduate. while we have every confidence the students will make up the classes we through the support of the city of san francisco have received credit for earning options for the affected students which includes offering evening school for the first time in four years and online courses. to make sure that the families are available of the options we sent automatic robeo dialer calls to contact families and as well as a letter that families should have received from me. we encourage all students and families to review the transcripts and discuss the progress with their counselor. many have met with the counselor at high school and created a plan at krawgz and we want to thank you for your efforts. i also want to advise our parents just because you received a letter doesn't mean that your child is goofing off and not doing what they need to do, so let's make sure we're supportive and students are on track. if yo

a volunteer for the program with university graduate spending a year teaching at remote schools.he 23-year-old engineer lives on a volcanic island in a village nine hours from the local airport. they have a lot to catch up fund. they created techniques to engage with show and tell. one of 70 teachers station across indonesia. >> we have enough teachers. 66% of our schools do not have enough teachers. >> only two out of four actually attend classes. students say that having an experienced teacher matters. >> + i always do my homework and follow what we learn. >> we are happy when he teaches us. i want to be a teacher as well. >> the problem is that there are high dropout rates and government money does not reach students. >> bad roads and infrastructure make it hard for students to go to school and learn. but he does remain upbeat. >> even if they live on the slopes of a mountain, anything is possible. it will be hard to let them go back to jakarta. >> the indonesia school system recently came last. volunteers are trying to raise hope. al-jazeera, sumbawa. >> you can catch more of

students would have a better chance of graduating within four years and getting a job. helping students realize opportunity and a career while keeping tuition costs makes sense.-- costs low makes common sense. there is a proposal which addresses this goal. and i look forward to working on this in pursuing legislative action in the house. over the course of this congress, we want to reform our student aid process to give students a financial incentive to finish their studies sooner, will encourage entrepreneurship in college education, including for-profit schools, and will fix the way we subsidize education by making the costs more transparent to parents, students and the millions of taxpayers who helped pay some of the bill. we owe it to them. now, a good education leads to more innovation. and throughout our history, american colleges and universities have served as a cornerstone for the world's innovation. they are a big part of why the u.s. remains the destination for the world's best and brightest. investment in education leads to innovation, which leads to more op

the shooter was dayvon maurice green, a graduate student with a history of mental illness. many are morning in the wake of what police describe as a murder-suicide. some stood his book up the e- mail alerts about the situation -- some students woke up to e-mail alerts about the situation. dayvon maurice green lit several small fires about 1:00 a.m. and opened fire on his teammates as they attempted to put them out, then shot himself to death. >> this is one kid who just snapped. >> investigators say one victim is expected to survive. the other, stephen alex rane, died of his injuries. >> it shocked everyone. it has been a really hard day. >> police say the gunman, a maryland graduate student with an engineering degree from morgan state, had a history of mental illness. >> as a community, we must move towards a resolution, heal our wounds. those in highger education are not immune to the onus of society. our classmates, colleagues, friends, are suffering. >> according to police, dayvon maurice green suffered from mental illness for at least a year and was on some kind of med

today he is a high-school graduate planning for college.says his counselor helped him into an accelerated learning program. the report found individualized programs like the one white attended are playing a key role in improving graduation rates. the report found 20 states have reached or are on pace to reach a 95% graduation rate by 2020. seven need to make moderate improvements to achieve that goal and the remaining 23 need to significantly accelerate that growth. >> part of it is communities rallying behind kids. >> father has been a significant drop in the number of dropouts, and throughout the country, more than 1400 high-school are still struggling. that many cases with fewer than 60% of students who start school in ninth grade continuing through their senior. colin powell called improving graduation rates a growing challenge. gaps remain for minority students and those with learning disabilities. >> we have no more important task and to prepare the next generation of lot -- of youngsters to take leadership in our country. >> he said

the study we are setting emphasizes graduates' liberal arts schools. they face the toughest time making their degrees pay. the idea of comparing how much you are conspiring college grad dinner with a degree issue want and how much they will have to pay in monthly loan costs is a good idea for everybody. according to one estimate the average student graduates with $26,000 or the debt. paying that off will likely delay when your graduate to my use, get married, have kids, and that is a shame. to give more detailed info on college costs and to make comparisons, checkut white house website and click on college scorecard. a new website for the department of education just this year developed to help college prospects see the whole picture. the debt and the earnings. altogether, one place. coming up, here from 111-year-old who is so proud of this country that he wrote a book about it. the white house making a rough draft of their immigration plan as the senate continues to hammer out a plan of their own. how much is all of this going to cost us? that is my q

those german kids are ready for a job when they graduate high school. they've been trained for the jobs that are there. now at schools like p-tech in brooklyn, a collaboration between new york public schools and city university of new york and i.b.m., students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering. we need to give every american student opportunities like this. and four years ago... ( applause ) four years ago we started race to the top, the competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards. all for about 1% of what we have spent on education each year. tonight i'm announcing a new challenge: to redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy. and we'll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math. the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be t

so those german kids, they're ready for a job when they graduate high school. they've been trained for the jobs that are there. now it's schools like p-tech in brooklyn, a collaboration between new york public schools and city university of new york and i.b.m. students will graduate with with a high school diploma and an associates degree in computers or engineering. we need to give every american student opportunities like this. (applause) and four years ago we started race to the top a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards. all for about of 1% of what we spent of education each year. tonight i'm announcing a new challenge: to redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy. and we'll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science, technology engineering and math. the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and thereby in the future. now, eve

and this is his graduation speech i want to read to everyone here. it's small so i might have difficulty reading it. greetings to my fellow coworkers and future leaders. over the course of the summer youth employment program i have learned elements of leadership, facilitation and personal growth. for a few weeks i was extended the opportunity to be shift supervisor where i led my fellow staff every day by arriving early, assessing the work to be done, and assigning tasks to my staff. thises wasn't always easy, but with perseverance we worked together and got the work done. 67c.103 staff member was given work plan at the beginning of the program where it outlined the expectations and gold for the summer. * our staff completed such things as college registration, job applications, resume building, site visits and other work experience related goals. * each these two months were nice and we all appreciate the opportunity to work together as a team. some of the highlights of the summer youth employment program was completing the garden, a film project, a