security conference this week, even as missiles continue to attack ukraine. have we learned anything from this strategy from moscow? we just heard in the last hour, from the president volodymyr zelensky, it did not alleviate much from his speech is weird for both of them. in the past, president volodymyr zelensky blaming the west for pumping billions of dollars of equipment and military aid into ukraine. and doing so, prolonging the conflict that he talked about, a multipolar world, as of the defense minister, and i think that is part of what s going on you. they are trying to prove that russia is not isolated by this conflict, that it is still a significant political power, they do have some international participants in both of those events, the army expo and the security conference, the chinese defense minister is expected to speak at the moscow international security conference and we say video
strategy in ukraine? reporter: we have been speaking at the moscow security conference, which is an event they re holding there is a lot of countries, where there is no nato countries. what we glean is that russia is doubling and tripling down on the idea of it being a watershed moment, this struggle against western and u.s. dominance in the world as they see it. they say that the u.s. and the allies are trying to stoke conflicts around the world. and they said that her continuing this policy in ukraine. what this fire leads to is clearly seeing the example of ukraine by pumping billions of dollars in the regime and supplying it with equipment, ammunition and sending the military advisers and missionaries.
has a daughter in eighth grade. my daughter is struggling in math exponentially. a lot of the things that we re seeing emotionally, behaviorally are putting a huge strain on what you re seeing in the classroom. huge strain. reporter: the findings come more than a month after similar results showing math and reading scores for 9 yeerlds fell by a level not seen in decades. the federal government is pumping billions in relief funds into districts requiring them to spipd spend at least 20% on learning loss. schools nationwide have been trying to hire more staff but with teacher burnout and fewer new teachers, many schools face a teacher shortage, especially in rural areas and those with more low income families and students of color. afternoon. ids please. reporter: at kaasa grand high
results showing math and reading scores for 9-year-olds fell by a level not seen in decades. the federal government is pumping billions in relief funds into districts. requiring them to spend at least 20% on learning loss. schools nationwide have been trying to hire more staff. but with teacher burnout and fewer new teachers, many schools face a teacher shortage. especially if rural areas and those with more low income families and students of color. at casa grande union high school in arizona, some classes have more than 70 students and in other rooms para educators are teaching lessons prepared br a certified teacher. i struggled with math and if i was sitting in that classroom, i need somebody to break it down a different way. if there is nobody who has the content knowledge to do that, i m going to shut down and i think many of the our students
but anyone who is in business, whether you own a store on main street, anyone who is in business who is trying to make money, maybe buy a house or send their keds to college, be warned this is a war on you as well. steve: one of the things he was responding to the insinuation by the a.p. reporter look, there are a lot of republicans and people from the obama administration, actually, who have said that a lot of the inflation that we got was because of the government spendings. the gigantic government spending. but you remember this: remember one of the criticisms by the obama people at the time back when they were pumping billions of dollars into the economy was, you know what? we didn t go big enough. well, now, joe biden is president and they went full tilt. by the time president biden got into office we had already authorized $14.9 trillion. trillion, trillion dollars. we had already authorized it and given out $10 trillion of it. we already had 10 trillion. we came up to 2021 s