host: jack buckley, does your center do policy? guest: no. we are a federal statistics agency so we are a non-partisan group designed to tell everybody the facts and help them people interpret or certainly point out whether or not we think somebody's story is supported by the evidence. host: you are confirmed in december of 2010 as a non- partisan position and runs through 2015 so it could potentially run through two different administrations. let's take some calls for jack buckley at the national center for education statistics. we will continue to go through some of the charts as well. david is an educator from california. guest: high tech robotics executive -- when our school system failed academically it decided to work on education reform. one of the things that isn't being talked about is in the state of california, our previous and current administrators for public education -- -- oconnell are continuing to go well -- go around and tell the public we have had 10 straight years of api improvement. if you look at our nape scores, you wil

later, jack buckley, of the national center for statistics to and just, to talk about how u.s. students are doing in math and reading. ♪ host: said it has been about one week since bank of america announced new bank fees for debit card holders. in that time, protests have been heard from the floor. this morning, we want to hear from you. get your reaction to bank fees and whether or not you think they are fair. phone numbers are on the screen. if you are a republican, for republicans, 202-737-0001. for democrats, 202-624-1111. for independents, 202-624-0760. please allow 30 days between your calls. you can contact us electronically as well. e-mail us batboy twitter.com/c- spanwj -- e-mail us at twitter.com/c-spanwj, or you can -- e-mail us at journal@c- span.org, send us a twitter at twitter.com/c-spanwj, or post to our facebook page. mr. constantine is the author of open quote price list: bringing down the visa and mastercard cartel." bank of america said recently that they would charge $5 a month for the use of debit cards. they argued they were forced to make that change b

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