what is the future for steve perry? >> i want to open the school in hartford. we start back on july 5th. that's what i do. i'm a principle. i will be out selling the book on the weekend. you know, there is a story in the book. i don't want to give it away. give it away. no. there is a story in the book about really the best and worst day of my life. there is a very famous educator who called me on december -- didn't call me, text to be on december 204th. i was in sunny mill town connecticut. he was an -- >> new york city. [laughter] >> a very steady place. that story is really why wrote this book. i feel very fortunate to have been given the opportunity that i have been given. i don't think there is anything special about me except that i just really love kids in a losing. those two things together are a good combination when it comes to being a principal. and as a result of that i have been offered opportunities to take other jobs, sir run districts. we have some friends who i have already said no tall the superintendent jobs have been offered, even when my go

so what's the future for steve perry look like? >> oh, open a school in hartford, and we start back on july 5th. that's what i do, i'm a principal. i'll be out selling the book on the weekends. on the weekends. and, you know, there's a story in the book, i don't want to give it away -- >> give it away. >> no, there's a story in the book about really the, um, the best and worst day of my life. and there's a very famous educator who called me on, um, december -- didn't call me, he texted me on december 24th. i was in sunny middle town, connecticut, and he was in -- >> new york city, born and raised. [laughter] >> a very sunny place. and that story is really why i wrote this book. i feel very fortunate to have been given the opportunities that aye been given. -- that i've been given. i don't think there's anything special about me because i really love kids, and i hate losing, and those two things together are a really great combination when it comes to being a principal. and as a result of that, i've been offered opportunities to tak

steve perry introduces us to a couple in tonight's perry's principles. >> reporter: mia is not your typicale's met the president, rang the bell at the new york stock exchange and started a business. >> you started a vegan cookie business in high school? >> yes, yes. the summer after tenth grade. my parents became vegan when my mom contracted breast cancer 11 years ago. >> what did you know about business? >> just what i learned in the month of nefty. it inspires students to stay in school, by tapping into their interest to create businesses. her bakery won the $10,000 grand prize. businessman turned teacher founded nefty in 1987. he was inspired after he was mugged by some kids in new york city. >> if you can start teaching young people about basic income statements, record keeping, how to do a sales call, save your money, i think that will have a dramatic impact on the economy. >> she grew newspaper a rough new york neighborhood and started designing handbags at the age of 16. the slow economy has been tough on her. >> it affected the stores i was in, my vendors, but once again, being part

cnn's education contributor and high school principal steve perry explains in tonight's "perry's principles man had no idea a paintbrush would move his life. he moved from beginy in west africa to new york city when he was 10. what is the reason you came to the u.s.? >> better education. my mother thought that i'd have a better opportunity to just succeed in life. >> reporter: he had a hard time fitting in at school. he didn't speak english, kept to himself, and eventually started hanging with the wrong crowd. but then he found public color. >> i basically came here every day -- >> reporter: the nonprofit puts paintbrushes in the hands of stops brighten up schools, neighborhoods, and low-income areas across new york city. >> color has huge power. >> reporter: ruth andy shoeman founded color 15 years ago with the idea that color can positively affect attitudes and behaviors. >> the colors that we choose, they're bright. they brighten up a person's mood. >> everything -- like your whole perception of the place changes. >> when i finish a project, i look and say, wow, i really helped the commu

principles, he tells steve perry that we are in danger of losing an entire generationieves being a man is no joke. >> real men respect women. real men go to work every day. that's what real men do. >> reporter: since 2009, harvey's monitoring weekend has welcomed teen boys from single mom households. it's an all-male event with a heavy dose of tough love. >> we have a program that works. and we give them a snapshot of what manhood is. >> reporter: harvey's wife, marjorie, hosts girls who rule the world to promote self-esteem and leadership. >> mentoring gives a child what to shoot for. it's a new target. instead of what they see in their neighborhoods. >> and it's also giving the kids to understand about making the right decisions. you have to be accountable. >> reporter: lesson both steve and marjorie learned from their dads. >> my father taught me so many lessons. the way a man should treat a woman. the way a father is supposed to be. >> my father was the greatest influence in my life. you got to find somebody to be like, and that's why i -- i'm messed up for kids th

our education contributor, steve perry, looks at how the rankings are created and whether they're actuallyr education. ♪ >>> rankings didn't really matter as much to me. >> i find it generally to be pretty accurate. >> what is your issue with the ranking? >> the process of college admissions has been commerci commercialized to the nth degree, led by "u.s. news & world report." >> reporter: lloyd thacker leads the education conservancy. they say the rankings have become a beauty pageant where some students feel pressured to choose their college based off numbers instead of their own values. there's a group called education conservancy. >> they don't like the rankings. >> they think it's a crock. >> it's true that the rankings have become a big brand for "u.s. news." but they've become a brand because there was a wed is of information -- was a wed is of information. >> he claims the rankings are fair because they're based on a combination of reputation, graduation rates, resources, and endowments among other things. when we hit the streets to find out what students thought, the results were

singer in a smoky run when neal schon, searching for a replacement for the retired lead singer steve perrys voice-and i went, whoa, like who is that? i was just completely taken back by his voice. i just went this guy is incredible. i have to find him. >> reporter: but what the band didn't know was that arnell was singing to survive. his mother died when he was just 13. after a long illness that left the family bankrupt. he ended up homeless, sleeping in a park in manila, collecting scrap metal to scrape up enough money to eat. >> i'm not sure i know a life story to whom this concept applies any more than yours. >> i find it weird that, you know, even before i discovered don't stop believin', it had been my motto to never stop believing in myself. you know, the life that i've gone through, you know, all those hardships... i never stopped believing that some day there is something magical that will happen in my life. never in my life, like my entire life here on earth that i would ever ever stumble upon this kind of magic, playing to all of these people around the world. what a ride, you kn

if it is not here with you to get to me and very concept to shintoism to not guarantee that that steve perry. well that's the fourteenth amendment however which says that the crew of the dead of the united station of the question it was written after the civil war and it was basically the debts of the union soldiers an army the question the next paragraph goes on to say that the debts of the the confederate soldiers are not going to be paid but article one section eight the first and second paragraphs of the constitution in the core of the constitution itself are really quite explicit they say only congress has the power to raise taxes pay debts and when quoting the constitution draw against the credit of the united states so most legal scholars are saying that what this means is that since congress has limited its own ability to borrow by instituting the debt ceiling first in one nine hundred seventeen then again in the thirty's only congress can borrow beyond it on the other hand all of the money that has to be paid has been authorized by previous congresses reagan to bush to clinton bush

joining us now steve perry. steve, thanks for being here. around this country? >> unfortunately it's becoming more and more common. and in the case of memphis and many small towns who never had enough money in their property taxes to run their local schools with b they've always had to depend on the state and in some cases the county and federal government to pay for their schools. i'm perplexed as to why the riff between the city and the school board has led to this. because some 93% of memphis public schools resources actually come from outside the city. >> let's talk about this general shortage of resources, though, steve. because one of the things i'm wondering about in all these cases is you're running into federal government running out of help, the local government can't handle it, the state can't handle it because every government is saying even if our head is above water, it's barely above water. >> we have spent gaudy for a long time on our schools. we have spent a lot of money and gotten very little in terms of an outcome. our sch

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steve perry is on the phone with us. he's a founder and principal a preparatory magnet school.ith you, jeff, if i can. are you in favor of the steps the memphis school board is taking? do you think this is a good idea to delay school indefinitely? >> i think it's a horrible idea. it's a horrible message to the kids. we are telling them we're playing politics with their education. education should be the last bastion that should be touched. i think they're being forced -- in their own minds they feel they're being forced to take this drastic action. but, again, i just do believe that it's going to have a very dill toirs effect on the minds of the children knowing that this is going on. >> steve, what are you thoughts on the recession and how it is impacting education reform? >> the recession has been one of the most important things to happen to public education. because what it's done is it's shown us that we've overspent and underperformed. and it's now created an opportunity where accountability can be the order of the day. it's also presented us with the opportunity for gove

steve perry. steve, let's take a look at this.ut this study from the seventh to the eleventh grade, i guess it was, over the course of three years or longer experienced either suspension or expulsion. those are not in line with national numbers. >> no. and what's important, though, is that when schools suspend at such a high rate, it's a clear example that adults don't have control of the bidding. they tend to lean on the justice system, whether it's police officers or security officers in the school to take care of what should be going on in the classroom. suspensions are a necessary part of what we do. don't think for a second that anyone so sympathetic to a child being suspended will be so sympathetic when their child is on the other end of the behavior. >> male students, we broke it down by race. of the male students suspended, 83% of african-american students were suspended, 74% of hispanics, 59% of whites. the numbers are lower in every category for female students. let's talk about race. is it a factor? is it -- does it ref

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. >> journey with the real steve perry. erence in the audience from years ago to now? >> the screech isn't as high. >> isn't as high pitched? >> because it's maybe little older ladies out there? >> it's still loud. slightly lower register. >> can you do a little, quick little number, warm up. you' you got to get the vocal -- ♪ that i could equal to the sparkle in your eyes ♪ come on danny. that's danny's part. >> come on, danny. >> that's it, it's over. ♪ be my valentine, girl >> that's george's part. >> there you go, your music monday. we don't discriminate new kidz and backstreet boys. some of the audio not perfect. we're going to fix that for you. you can go to my blog to see the whole thing by tonight. and a disturbing fox news tweet cross the the web last night. it falsely announced that president obama had been killed and now the secret service has been called. >> it's another day and we have another hacking controversy. it involves twitter and fox news. how did it happen? do we know? >> oh, gosh. brooke, everybody fro

here's education contributor and high school principal steve perry with tonight's perry's principals.r typical 18-year-old. she's met the president, rang the opening bell at the new york stock exchange and started her own business. mama nia's vehicle an bakery. her cookies were served as at an event at the waldorf as store yeah hotel in new york. >> you started a vegan cookie business in high school? >> yes. yes. the summer after tenth grade. my parents became vegan when my mom contracted breast cancer 11 years ago. >> as a 15-year-old, what did you know about business? >> just what i had learned in that month of nifty. >> nifty stands for network for teaching newership. it's a non-profit inspiring low income students to stay in school by tapping into their interests to create businesses. using a hands-on approach nifty teaches how reading, writing and math skills from the classroom translate into the real world. at nifty's national competition last fall, her bakery won the $10,000 grand prize. >> when you go off yale in a couple months, you have the opportunity to continue this busin

school principal steve perry tells us how the rankings are created and he talks to someone who thinksbe pretty accurate. >> what is your issue with the rankings? >> they are put together to sell magazines, not to improve education. >> how could you say that? they're based upon what? >> the process of college admissions has been commercialized to the nth degree. >> lloyd backer leads the education conservancy. they say the rankings have become a beauty pageant where some students feel pressured to choose their college based off numbers instead of their own values. >> there's a group called education conservancy? >> they don't like the rankings? >> they think it's a crock. >> it's true the rankings have become a big brand for u.s. news. but they've become a brand because there is a void of information. we sort of made many, many schools -- people more aware that there's a lot of schools out there in all shapes and sizes. >> according to robert morse, the rankings are fair because they're based on a combination of reputation, graduation rates, faculty resources and endowments among other

. >> bret: steve, turn topics to the texas governor rick perry who has been flirting flig with a run many people say it's almost sure to happen. today he is speaking out. that his wife is on board. >> as my wife was talking to me saying get out of your comfort zone. being governor of texas, a great job. but sometimes you are called to step in to the fray. >> bret: getting close. >> yeah, he's more likely to run than not. i think they are still exploring fundraising possibility. they're making calls to for fund raise and trying to figure out what kind of a network they can set up to propel him in the race with a serious amount of money. mitt romney is a formidable front runner on the money. primary. and perry wants to be competitive before he decides he is actually going to jump. but all indication are, the phone call in iowa, meeting with new hampshire folks, all ind cases are he is more -- indications are he is more likely to get in than not. >> bret: former defense officials, including donald rumsfeld has helped set up the meeting and briefings in austin. they have been going on fo

steve: with lawmakers still deadlocked on a debt creel, two republican governors why a message for washington. don't raise the debt ceiling until you balance the budget. south carolina governor nikki haley teamed up with rick perryand governor haley joins us from columbia, south carolina. good morning to you, governor. >> good morning. >> steve: you and governor perry are now pen pals with america, writing in the newspapers? >> you know, what you're saying is there is great governors across the country that are having to balance their budgets, they're having to cut spending and having to cap spending and what they're saying is, look, if we're doing this in the states, we want you to do this in d.c what governor perry and i are trying to do is say the ohm way we're going to get washington in line is if we start to balance our budget. they're going to need the state support to do that through the constitutional amendment. we want them to know we've got governors lining up to support them in that process. >> steve: the idea that later this week the republicans in the house are going forward with cut, cap and balance, you love that because you think america should have a balanced budget amendment to the constitution

steve. it's the good the bad in the very very sort of thing really ugly first the good but the freedom from religion foundation after texas governor rick perry designated august sixth as a day of prayer and fasting for a nation to seek god's guidance for perry's words and called on governors across america to join him for a religious route to freedom from religion foundation showed rick perry perry a lawsuit arguing that this religious rally violates the first amendment's establishment clause course rick perry is also the guy who advised texans to pray for rain and it actually got drier so he's no stranger to injecting religion and policy kudos to the freedom from religion foundation for standing up for the session happy governor the bad. sarah palin earlier this year paling came under criticism for her gun rhetoric of lock and load rhetoric following the shooting of congresswoman gabby giffords well a few months later pale and still hasn't learned her lesson by appearing on where else but fox news paling weighed in on the debt limit ago she ations with this. we cannot default but we have to we cannot afford to retreat right now either now i

perry taking the nomination so mitt, where's the boastful bravado coming from? joining me now, david wine gold, political reporter for the slate. and msnbc contributor. and steveyou both forbeing with us. is romney just that sure of himself? is he trying to project the kind of rose garden strategy without the rose garden or is he just arrogant? >> i've been watching mitt rom fee for about two decades now since his first race in massachusetts in 1949. one thing i noticed about him is this veneer of polish to him where he seems like a really charismatic persuasive calm guy. but when you get him in the settings where he needs it talk off cuff or requests with the crowd or q & a with reporters, he says clumsy things. i remember noticing that 15, 20 years ago. and now we are seeing it now. it gives ammunition to his owe opponents and to the press for them to say, that he looks arrogant, presuming he is the winner, and you never want to look like that in politics. >> is he clumsy or trying to project a victor's image here? >> i don't think this is clukssy. the first thing you brought up about the running mate short list, look, it was, when he was signalling with th

. >> steve, you remember yesterday with judge alex on saying he didn't necessarily have to give her credit for time served but judge perry know, time served. so what is this now? she has a week and a day until she gets released. >> interesting thing will be life changes for her a lot when she gets out here and it will be interested to see where she goes, how she's treated. they're very concerned about the public safety when she's released. not just casey anthony's safety but people who are near her or around her. there's some word she could possibly be staying with other relative vs. the family. we don't know what the family dynamics will be like. >> i can tell you what it's going to be. she can't -- those close to her, her dad is going to say how dare your attorney suggest that i have been abusing you since you were a little child. >> that's a great point. >> that's a great point. >> if they release her to the parents, wow. >> they're not going to -- she's going to wind up going down -- >> dinner table, though. >> anthonys have arranged to have her stay with an aunt in texas. meanwhile, what about the jurors? what's goi