be a challenge for the democrats with over 130 million dollars invested between 1990 and 2014 from nea. teythey have a fine line to walk. some of our people are saying they want sitting outside -- something outside the public school system. for me, i would say state first national conversation but let states do what they need to do. >> we will open it up to the crowd. i may start with the twitter question. this question was perfectly in matt's will house. you have done some of the best research on this question. in talking about standardized testing a question from twitter was, in the survey and the amount of time and the amount of money. the question was phrased, how much money could be saved by eliminating standardized tests and root -- replacing them with smaller, pragmatic competency tests. maybe you could speak to your look into the broader cost of -- the broader cost. matt: i did a study looking at how much states were spending. it comes out to pending on how you crunch the numbers $30 a kid. i ran some tests and relations how much would you save? across the country looks like a

yes, right here. >> hi, i'm jordy, working at the nea. so, i have a comment, which doesn't follow your rules. >> just end it by going, eh? >> i wanted to bring the attention to the sample size of 1,000 and then mentioned that the subset was a quarter of that, so, we're only talking about 250 people who are potentially involved in making choices that are actually about their students, but to what mr. robinson said, that voters tend to be people that are not necessarily in that demographic, so they may not have all of the correct information. that's the comment. the question sort of stems from that. what's the anticipated impact provided everyone could have as much choice as they want about the type of school they send their child to on public education? and the second part of that is if there's a an expanded ability to choose within public education, what does that look like? >> public school students remain the majority. within the next decade, they'll probably remain the same. i think you've got to make the math easy. 50 million. k-12 st

now retired lawyer from the nea. he said we will pick and choose lofty principles and mickey mouse procedural tactics. well the other issue is -- you didn't expect that, did you? the other issue that our opponents have been talk building quite publicly is the provision of the constitution that requires the state to establish and maintain a public school system. that provision says this. the legislature shall provide for a uniform system of common schools. and then goes on to say it shall be open six months a year and open to all students in the state. opponents often grasp on to these union formity clauses and make an argument that these clauses require the legislature to fund education, exclusively through the public school system. the argument changes the meaning from one of uniformity to one of exclusivity. now, there's only been one state that accepted this argument. that was florida in 2004. since that time, every corp. to consider it rejected it and has found these provisions establish a floor not a ceiling. a

and also very quickly here, ta nea saying reform or grexit?ying is there hope he's looking in the bottom of a ballot box and trying to find it. a resounding victory for alexis tsipras in the no vote but what does it mean for a deal and can they implement? wilfred, back to you. >> julia, thank you. yanis varoufakis said the euro despite here the eagles song "hotel california" you can check out anytime but you can never leave. get in touch with us on twitter at cnbc.com. let us know some of the famous quotes of the former finance minister. we have questions now. >> why? >> because. this is all the things -- if i owed you a thousand euros, would you rather have cash or a greek account? >> the cash. >> already you're saying that the money in a greek bank account isn't worth the same in a euro or german account? and there's a chance that we'll have a change this weekend and things will be smoothed. but now they're not going to have that. >> i think you're making important points but let's weigh what the ecb says because ultimately they're the ones

i now retired lawyer for the nea said we will take and choose lofty principles and mickey mouse procedural tactics. -- youer issue that is did not expect that, did you? [laughter] the other issue that our opponents have been talking about quite publicly is the provision of the nevada constitution, which requires the state to establish and maintain a public school system. " therovision says this, legislature's will provide a provision for all schools. opponents of educational choice often grab onto these uniformity clauses and make an argument that these clauses require the educatione to fund exclusively through the public school system."the argument changes the meaning of the provisions from one of uniformity to one of exclusivity. , there has only been one state that has accepted this argument. that was florida in 2014 since that time, every court to consider it has rejected the argument and has found that these provisions establish a floor, not a ceiling. otherre free to build educational options for their students. i think we will be able to easily defend nevada's esa program from this

with over $130 million being invested between 1990 and 2014 from nea and aft into democratic candidates. they have a very fine line to walk because that's a public school constituency. money coming from public unions. and yet some of your people are saying we want something elgs. that should be a national conversation but ultimately supported at the state level. i'd say state first, national conversation but let the states do what they need to do. >> i think we can open it up to the crowd. we'll have microphones around. they'll come out momentarily. i may start with a twitter question. this twitter question was perfectly in matt's wheel house. this is perfect. you've done some of the best research on this. in talking about standardized testing, a question from twitter, there were questions about the amount of time. question about the amount of money. how much money could be saved by eliminating standardized tests and replacing them with smaller pragmatic competency tests. maybe speak to your broader look into the cost of standardized testing because it dovetails nicely. >> we can't save

here is ta nea. it says reforms or grex it.tic and dramatic headlines, acropolis, it says 61% no to the lone sharks. so that's the tonality that you can see from the newspapers here guys. they realize that yesterday was a huge huge event. the political process started. the prime minister alexis tsipras met last night and with the leaders of the parties. they got to bring together some kind of proposal to the creditors to see if they can get a deal done. remember the prime minister promise as deal in 28 to 48 hours. the finance minister yanis varoufakis. he's got a book out called "mod engreece, what you need to know." he's been following closely the situation here. he is not surprised that varoufakis had to be thrown under the bus when it gomscomes to negotiations. >> he is not a good negotiator. he thinks he is superior and as a result everyone dislikes him. how will you sprooik strike a compromise with people like that in the room. he may be a good person to blog. but blocking is not good politics. >> reporter: he's making re