host: stephen sawchuk, what is your response? --st: one thing i was at would add is that the federal government just supplies and nine cents on the dollar. when we are talking about investing more in purely monetary terms, we are talking about state and local investment. that is where most of it is coming from. you have 50 states and 14,000 school district. they are making these decisions. that is a really complicated matter. to the question about producing scientists and mathematics, that is a tough nut to crack. i do not think we have quite the answer there. there is a shortage and qualified teachers of subjects. what are we looking at on our screen now? guest: earlier, we talked about our comparisons to the large cities. comparison is the best or most comparable comparison. that looks very much like the cities of volunteers to participate. some of the districts are scoring below their peers nationwide in these large cities, in both reading and math. that is the case. that is the case for the majority. baltimore city has a down

findings with peggy carr of the national center for educational statistics and assistant editors stephen sawchukhost: the flights are at half staff over the capital this morning to honor the fort hood shooting victims. reform is ons their agenda. the president is meeting with the prime minister of tunisia at the white house. here are some of the articles in this morning's paper from the front page of the "washington times." house republicans have scheduled host loist week to lerner in contempt of congress