in the state of connecticut, they would not have a prekindergarten experience. we know what works in education. thousands and thousands of teachers and parents would've lost their jobs. last size would balloon. the new haven community that you say that you care about would be hit the hardest. we are doing things to turn education around. that is why we now rank number one in reading. rank numberwe now one tied with two other states. and the number of students taking advanced placement tests and their performance including 13.5% of those people that come from poor backgrounds. i am proud of that, i am proud graduation rates have gone up every single year since i have been governor. i am proud of the progress we are making that the kids are making and that the administrators are making and that the board of education are making. this is important stuff. if you want to talk about economic development, it's not overnight. it's built line by line, career by career. school by school. that is what we are doing. >> let me stay on that point if i can. your education refo

in the state of connecticut, they would not have a prekindergarten experience. we know what works in education. thousands and thousands of teachers and parents would've lost their jobs. last size would balloon. the new haven community that you say that you care about would be hit the hardest. we are doing things to turn education around. that is why we now rank number one in reading. that is why we now rank number one tied with two other states. and the number of students taking advanced placement tests and their performance including 13.5% of those people that come from poor backgrounds. i am proud of that, i am proud graduation rates have gone up every single year since i have been governor. i am proud of the progress we are making that the kids are making and that the administrators are making and that the board of education are making. this is important stuff. if you want to talk about economic development, it's not overnight. it's built line by line, career by career. school by school. that is what we are doing. >> let me stay on that point if i can. your e

the mayor's office of education on the statistics of the city and county of san francisco see prekindergarten program. presentations whether include the demographics of students who are in the programs and the achievement gaps of those who attended pre k and those who didn't. and the second hearing i'm introducing a co- introducing with president fewer is a hearing request on the policies for planning for new student enrollment ems just in the last 10 years from 2000 to 2010 the san francisco population grew. and now sits anothers 8 hundred and 25 thousand and projected to grow to one million the accommodates those growth we need the builders who or allocated towards the landscaping there's no considerations for how we look at school enrollment. with the increasing enrollment of over the last few years it's great news for ucsf it hit its rock bottom enrollment we'll happy that more and more families are enrolling their kids but as we continue to grow we need to make sure we don't reach a point we can't accept any new kindergarteners in san francisco with our height we had 86 students and when

that we at the university are working to strengthen post secondary education in minnesota from prekindergarten all the way through high school and these are problems that we all need to lean into together. >> headline from the "boston globe" this morning on their front page, as harvard gets 350 milli million for health efforts, they say it's the biggest gift in the school's history, $350 million. not to make you jealous or anything, president kalor. but how big is the endowment at the university of minnesota and how do you decide where to allocate those funds? foundation endowment is right at $2 million and the university maintains it's own endowment of about a billion dollars, so we have about $3 billion of endowments and resources it's one of the biggest endowments in the country. it's divided into a myriad of activities. professor ship support for faculty members and support for probably hundreds if not thousands of activities that donors have contributed through the years. so philanthropy is an important part of our budget and will continue to be a part of our public institution going forw

access to prekindergarten, smaller classroom size. extended days when applicable. schools closer to where the kids are living. holding people accountable. not just teachers. at ministry was, kids, and parents. the point out governor wells success for something he started in the 90's and say massachusetts is making progress, you're absolutely right. it has been done over time. there is this other thing that tom sometimes uses when he describes educational reform. he says i am education reform light. he wants to bring in other systems that he hasn't said a single word about about what he would do. >> i have a couple things to say here. first of all, you have just introduced maloy madness into the debate. use it spending has only gone up by 28% but you have taken out of the budget a very significant amount of money which is the federal portion of medicaid. you have taken it out of the revenue side and spending side so you're not being truthful with the audience here. if you add that spending back end or if you take it out of the base year budget, it's gone up while --

minimum wage, whether the government should start universal programs to put kids into school from prekindergarten. what do you need more than a minimum wage? and even if your kids attend pre-k, what happens when they come home? is your life already over at the age of 30? would it change if we had a second chance program? where could you finish school and show your kids your own diploma and tell them to stay in school and study and be an example and aspire to a real job that pace more than minimum wage -- pays more than minimum wage. what would it take to turn those things around? or is it impossible? or should we just decide that it's something that's beyond he role of government? this societal dislocation has been happening at a time when america's place on the international stage has become increasingly unclear. both in terms of our position as the economic beacon of the global community and our vital role as the military guarantor of international stability. for more than two decades, since the end of the cold war, our country has been adrift in its foreign policy. the greatest military power

minimum wage, whether the government should start universal programs to put kids into school from prekindergarten. what do you need more than a minimum wage? even if your kids attend pre-k, what happens when they come home? is your life over at 30? would it change if we had a second chance program where you could finish school and show your kids your own diploma and tell them to stay in school and study and be an example and aspire to a real job that pays more than minimum wage? what would it take to turn those things around, or is it impossible? or should we just decide that it's something beyond the role of government? this societal dislocation has been happening at a time when america's place on the international stage has become increasingly unclear, both in terms of our position as the economic beacon of the global community and our vital role as the military garn tore of international stability. for more than two decades since the end of the cold war, our country has been adrift in its foreign policy. the greatest military power on earth has locked a clearly defined set of principals that w

so many families will save the cost of day care or private prekindergarten.e are getting your thoughts. william, asheville, north carolina. he is on the line for educators. caller: good morning. i would like to talk about school choice. i like school choice, however, i think school likee should be determined we used to do when my children went to private school in the 1970's and 1980's, when my brother's children went to private school and my sisters went to private schools. i am telling all african americans, do not be fooled by school choice. it is probably a little bit of de facto segregation. my sistersck when and my children and my brothers children went to private school, we paid for it out of our own pockets. there were no vouchers for us to go to private school. there to college when were no student loans. i started out in 1963 as a freshman. this thing of giving people to go to school, especially to elementary and secondary schools, i think it is wrong. piecei should note -- a we showed earlier, the number of students taking advantage of vouchers and