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every kid taking the test. that is totally progress oriented. we re moving in the right direction. at the same time we have to do better. we re not yet at the national average. it s 21. we re still at 19 1/2. we have so much more left to do. hold on for me for a second. sarah, i wanted to come to you. one of the other pieces of data we see what happened with the teacher corps. young teachers, not teachers of color, and in charter schools frequently not unionized teachers. there s been big demographic shifts. overall it s more white. after katrina they fired all of the teachers en masse and new orleans had one of the highest percentages of that turned black educators in the country and there s been a big influx of teachers coming through programs like teach for america. and there are terrific veteran teachers and awful veteran
budget. can you accept the president s budget? his recommendation for some of these cuts that he has in it, including to pell grants? well, i can accept them, but i m not happy with them. i don t want to pretend that i m happy with them. i think the year-round pell grant is essential to low-income students who are trying to get their lower division courses out of the way at community colleges as rapidly as they can. that s unfortunate. but there s nothing compared to the cuts that are being made on the house floor that were made last night and again today, which you really see as a tearing up of a longtime bipartisan consensus about funding education for poorer, minority children, about students with disabilities, about improving our teacher corps, and the absolute need for the head start program. and yet we see cuts that are going to throw 250,000 children out of head start, that are
going to dramatically reduce funding needed to improve the teacher corps, that is so necessary for the reforms that we re all talking about and we ll be talking about at the white house. so that s really effort. and along with zeroing out the job training programs in this country. so there s two things going on here at the same time that make all this a little bit more difficult, but i m very encouraged by the president getting directly involved in the education debate. the secretary has led these bipartisan meetings in the house and the senate over the last two years. we ve been meeting on a regular basis, among the leadership and of the committees in the house and the senate. congressman, you mentioned some of the cuts, particularly in education, an issue near and dear to you. and there s no question they re tough and they hurt. but isn t that the very nature of cuts? i suppose the argument is, the federal government is out of money. so you ve got to cut somewhere. savannah, ever