this is not what we want to hear. and you know what, martha, tomorrow mardi gras, fat tuesday. martha: wet streamers may be running down people s faces and everything. thanks very much. i guess march is coming in like a lion. bill: i guess you could say. martha: i went to school in upstate new york. spring comes around in may 20th. bill: for the folks in new orleans i don t think they ll feel the rain any way so when it comes to federal spending it is all our money. reports show billions of dollars are being wasted and redundant programs for improving teacher quality and job training programs that may not even work. doug mcelways live on this. how much money is the government spending on teacher erie taken and is it working. reporter: the year for which it was tabulated, 20009 the
republican colorado lawmakers are proposing. their new bill would allow parents to help pull the trigger on schools that are failing our children. so how would this bill work, colorado state representative dondon beasley joins me now. he is one of the people proceed proceedings this. good morning. good morning. martha: my first question is why is this necessary in denver. marthadenver. over the last 40 years we have doubled education spending in the state and the country and have had flat line results. an important part of dealing with the results is looking at our lowest performing schools and the bill will deal with the lowest performing schools and empower parents to get involved and make a change. martha: the parents only need to have just better than 50% signatures, correct? it would be 50% plus one and they would be able to petition their local school board to affect some change. they might ask for that school to be changed to a charter school, for example.
too. its all your money. martha: the tunisian premiere has named a new government, folks. we have seen a lot of turn over since theout tere of bel ali in january that started the domino effect in so many countries across the middle east. it s very difficult to put a government together in the burgeoning efforts to build something new. so far they ve been having difficult times getting it together. bill: first you had the revolution now the refugee problem. the northern part of africa so red-hot from nigeria, tunisia, egypt. we talked a lot about this. tenured teachers, schools going down the tubes. not much parents can do about that. one state may be about to change
tomorrow, an organization representing the school boards. they are as i say reviewing the bill. i suspect they will be somewhat resistant to it however, it does in fact take a little bit of power away from the school board and put it in the hands of the parents. martha: as you point out you re voting to end the current system and replace it in many cases with some of the good staffers that are in those schools and that are already there. i m going to be watching this. i hope you ll keep us posted on it. thank you so much for being with us today. thank you, martha. bill: everybody is looking for a resolution. martha: everybody is looking for a better way to educate our kids in this country. bill: new developments on a raging battle. have a look and a listen at this. [gunfire] go, go, go, go, go, go, go. bill: that s our own fox news crew caught in the crossfire. qaddafi is cracking back on the rebel fighters. we are back on the battle field live in 12 minutes.
i keep getting the sense that many of these reasonable and responsible senators are indeed looking for a pathway home, but it seems like they go back to their full caucus and some of the more extreme members of that caucus somehow are putting a barrier to them coming back to the capitol to come back home to get the job home. bill: that was four days ago and since then nothing has changed. it s 9:30 monday morning in madison, wisconsin, no sign of the 14 missing democrats. there is one report today in the wall street journal suggesting some of the democrats are ready to come back to work. is that true? rebecca clay fish is the lieutenant governor of wisconsin. welcome back. the beat goes on. is it true that some democrats are ready to come back? good morning, bill we hope that some democrats are eagerly hoping to return, and very soon, because we need a solution on