tony smith. we have been working with creating those types of things. the city have been wonderful to build our capacity. if you are a principle, what do you do in a hundred different agencies come at you? you barely have the time at school. we need to create user-friendly. i think we're going to get there with our new strategic plan. how did your organization, what you do fit into the plan? it's got to be there to support what we're all about. improving student achievement. that's what we're about. i am proud to say, we've had lots of meetings, we are getting there. i am exciting working with margaret. our bureaucracy wasn't created to work with these. if you want the convenience business, stay the heck out of this business. we have to learn how to play if the sand box and model what we want our city to be. >> all right. we'll save one, yes, >> actually, i want to piggyback. this is a commercial and also an action item. i think we need to truly fund peer court youth court. they have stopped their services a few weeks ago because they don't have the mon

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mike smith says the day's not far off when the national weather service will be able to warn you a tornado is in your path over your cell phone, russ. >> mitchell: interesting. tony guida, thank you very much. the second largest school district in the country is jumping right into the controversy of how we evaluate teachers. los angeles officials recently issued reports showing parents how their kid's school stacks up. as ben tracy reports, for some parents it was a rude awakening. >> it's terrible, terrible. >> reporter: mark ludena got some bad news this week. the elementary school his son attends is considered below average in both english and math. >> i fear for my child's education, what's going to happen in the future. >> reporter: mark now knows this thanks to something called value added analysis. a way to evaluate teachers and their schools. it takes students past test scores and predicts how they should do the next year. if they do better than expected, the teacher added value. if they do worse, the teacher subtracted value. los angeles public school's brand-new superintendent made the data public on the district a web site for the first time this month

story also features a quote from house judiciary committee chairman lamar smith, republican of texas. st. louis, missouri. tony is on our line for democrats. caller: the last caller from california had it right. it truly is cowardice. america used to be pretty strong -- especially coming from new york. those were some of the toughest people in the world as far as we were concerned. the problem that i have is actually with democrats. we sit around and let the republicans do all of their talking, and we kowtow if you notice what is going on as far at -- kowtow. if you notice what is going on with republican governors around the country, you can see they are pretty weak -- weak minded. democrats, stop sitting on your but and for those who consider themselves independents, stop going back and forth and open your eyes and realize and look at what these people are doing. the government is going to be shut down in a couple of more days simply because the republicans cannot govern. host: that is tony in st. louis, missouri. we will take a break from our discussion regarding the white house and its decision on locating

tony soprano had a seat in the senate. if this congress can't even clean up the most egregious polluter in its own backyard, how can they deal with the problem across the entire united states? >> smith but in 2008, there was a new push on capitol hill to rein in carbon emissions. >> sir, i started by members... >> ...that were highly controversial in the energy committee. >> smith: senator john warner had drafted legislation, along with senator joe lieberman, to mandate a 60% cut in greenhouse gases by mid-century. >> well, we have a prodigious task. >> smith: and while how the industry does that is unclear, the bill's authors are betting on it. is there a future for coal? >> there's got to be a future for coal in the us. it's too important to us. and again, i think once you create this law, this mandate, the coal industry and a lot of others are going to figure out how to use coal and not pollute the air. >> in the marshlands of central florida, there's not much activity for people. >> smith: to make the case for clean coal, the industry likes to point to a power plant outside tampa, florida, known as polk one. ge made a short film about it. >> with the help of ge's advanced cleane