the push over the last year from the obama education department, which is trying to move to the center on education reform, and pushing for -- to break up the status quo, down at the state and local level, has been in anything, lengthen school days, to keep kids in school or make the buildings available more often for kids to need after school activities to make it a bigger part of kids' lives. this pushes in the opposite direction. the problem is nobody's got the money to give to the local schools and that includes the federal government, by in large torques make them whole so you have pressure and this will be seen more. >> shepard: we haven't got an lot out of the white house on this lately. i guess it's a hot potato. >> not on this subject but i talked to people in the white house today and you'll see a ramp up by the president on education. he'll talk about these subjects. one thing happening now is the education department is preparing to dole out a large