great public school no matter where they live, no matter who they are. >> this is the president talking and addressing the dropout rates. here it is. >> you can't defend a status quo in which a third of our kids are dropping out. you can't defend a status quo when you have 2,000 schools across the country that are dropout factories where more than half of the kids are dropping out. in those schools you have to have radical change. >> what kind of radical change would you suggest or go along with to turn those numbers around, mr. van roekel? >> i agree with the president that the status quo is not acceptable. what we're doing as a union, the school improvement grants which are aimed and targeted to schools under performing, the ones president obama was talking about, every single one of those schools that receive funds, we're going to include in priority schools campaign. we don't call them high-need schools. we believe they ought to be high priority. we're going to part with them and say, get management, school board, employees and their union