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The American Jobs Act Invests in Our Students

Summary: 
One teacher explains how the President's plan to create jobs will help students.

Jay Chung, a Philadelphia music teacher, says that we need the American Jobs Act because it invests in our schools and our student’s futures.

Chung is responsible for music classes at seven different schools in the Philadelphia school district. He travels from school to school, teaching percussion classes using plastic buckets from Home Depot, which he’s found is the best way to stretch his meager $100 budget.

Watch him discuss his unique program and explain how the American Jobs Act will help our nation's students and their schools in this video from the Department of Education.

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