a whopping 80% of american schools are failing to meet the proficiency goals set up by federal legislation. children do learn when standards are high and results are measured. when no child left behind legislation was passed in 2001, it mandated certain accountability measures in order for schools to get federal funding. all tied to performance on standardized tests. with funding at stake, some schools took drastic measures to meet these government standards. in march 2013, 35 atlanta educators were indicted for allegedly participating in a standardized test cheating ring. rigorous testing seems to work for williamsburg. so why has it fail for so many other schools across the u.s.? some chicago parents say it s because in their schools testing has become the most critical measure of success. would you like to sign a petition against the amount of testing happening in cps? this is a list. oh, okay. of all the tests that are
legislation was passed in 2001, it mandated certain accountability measures in order for schools to get federal funding. all tied to performance on standardized tests. with funding at stake, some schools took drastic measures to meet these government standards. in march 2013, 35 atlanta educators were indicted for allegedly participating in a standardized test cheating ring. rigorous testing seems to work for williamsburg. so why has it fail for so many other schools across the u.s.? some chicago parents say it s because in their schools testing has become the most critical measure of success. would you like to sign a petition against the amount of testing happening in cps? this is a list. oh, okay. of all the tests that are happening. hi, good morning. we re gathering signatures against the high stakes testing. it is out of control. two weeks of instructional time is being lost every year. in kindergarten, it can be up to 14 tests per year. my son is five.
breakfast and dinner and didn t know what was going on, and was a bad manager and should be fired. this confirms people in government do a horrible job, and what do they get, a 11-month vacation? martha: it is unbelievable. you would think, and you stated, so well, john, because either he didn t know what was going on and that s a problem or he did, and that s a problem. but what it says to me along the way here there is just this acceptance, this sort of, well, everybody does this stuff, right? this is agency sort of pep talk, employee rally. we went out to vegas, what is the big deal? terrible people are out there pointing fingers at us when we re just trying to rev up our employees. this conference was outrage just by government standards. they $3200 mind reader to play carnac the magnificent or whatever it was. look, the real problem what happens to the average employee at gsa. they did fire 11 people over this conference, 11 low
says the actual dollars by government standards are relatively small. according to one estimate the money you would get from the buff let ruet rule would cover of the increased deficit under the obama budget. the president s proposal in total would cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade and put us into a path where the date is staebl lied. 3 percent of the total economy which is where everyone gries we need to be. you can see the federal deficit without the buffet rule that s the top line. with the buffet rule that s the second line. the impact would be in the federal budget. the obama campaign will keep
warranties and representations anecdotally, in the dipstick tests, show a tremendous amount of loans that do not comply with government standards. and yet the government has been and continues to buy these securities. do you why is that? i can t answer that. i can t speak for fannie and freddie. i have a lot of questions of fannie and freddie. as you know, they own the bulk of they are the investors. well, they re wholly owned by the taxpayer of this country. we own fannie and freddie. we own our own bad mortgages? we own our own bad mortgages, so we can do something about that. that s why from our perspective, we ve had the wrong parties a t the table. just to deal on this investigation purely with the servicing issue is to so narrowly limit it, it doesn t allow us to do all the whole investigation, that require us to have all of the parties at table. fannie and freddie, with the biggest investment portfolio, other investors, private and third party investors, originators, s