the admission requirements. so with that raising of the requirement, we have a greater proportion of the freshman class who go straight in to college-level courses. but it is a national phenomenon that we ll have to we ll do in terms of college readiness for students coming out of high school. dr. james ammans, great to see you here. we ll be focusing intensively on this ourselves. like a laser beam, next we ll through education nation and our networks of nbc and msnbc. thank you very much for helping us to kick off today s conversation. thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to talk about florida a&m university. okay. we will keep track. and also today, kansas city, missouri, schools flunking out. the missouri board of education has revoked accreditation for the entire kansas city school district after it failed for several years in a row it meet state standards. if that district does not improve in the next two years, the city s schools could face a state takeover
[ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. , so a devastating blow to kansas city, missouri, schools where the entire district lost the accreditation tuesday and faces a state takeover after failing to meet most of the state s academic performance. student performance is a concern in kansas city for years, and in 2010, the district announced it would close half of the schools in the district and firing hundreds of teachers. joining us now live is r. steven green, the kansas city interim superintendent of schools. steve, nice to have you with us this morning. students met just 3 of the state s 14 performance standard s. 3 of 14. failed in math, graduation rates, college placement and among other areas, and in your
about your medicare coverage. talk to securehorizons today to get the answers you need. call now. shepard: atlantic city has been the gam blinks mecca of the east coast since the 1980s, but lately new casinos in nearby states have been cutting into profits there. in 2009, vegas east had its worst year in more than a decade. that s according to new jersey s casino control commission. now the governor is proposing to fix things with a state takeover. our senior correspondent rick leventhal with the news in a place he knows pretty well. rick, what s happening? well, shepard, having a nation s oldest and longest board walk may be a draw but it s clearly not enough. atlantic city is suffering from a much more crowded gaming marketplace prompting the governor to say this town is dying and running out of time. atlantic city is the number two gaming destination in america, with 35 million visitors dropping $3.5 billion in its 11
month turned its finances to the state for supervision, you drive out to detroit, you come to town after town under some form of emergency management, some form of state takeover, whether actual emergency manager or state takeover to do what the state says or else. not just michigan, the state is set for other states under various forms of emergency manager laws in those states. the capital of pennsylvania, city of harrisburg exhibit a outside michigan. the question for michigan and other states looking at this as a potential model is not whether cities and towns are in good shape or bad shape, the question is whether we use democracy as the way we fix problems in this country or whether democracy itself is a problem, whether this pesky thing about people voting for people to represent them must be gotten rid of in order for us to do what we want to do, whether that experience in governance is over and we govern in a new way. joining us is reverend bullock, pastor of the highland churc