First lady Michelle Obama spent nearly two hours at Brinkley Middle School. Her first stop, a round table discussion in the lunchroom with Governor Haley Barbour, and Mayor Harvey Johnson and school nutritionists, brainstorming on ways to make school lunches better.

Governor Barbour began the meeting addressing Michelle says, "You are a leader and it needs to be done and it's not about party politics it's not about anything except we can have better lives for our children."

The highlight of the visit, a pep rally promoting Lets Move, the first lady's plan to fight childhood obesity, by providing kids better meals and encouraging exercise.

Michelle Obama promised the kids if they did their part, she could get the food and drug administration to put more nutritional facts on food labels, get more grocery stores and farmers markets into the inner city, and give more funding for healthier lunches.

"There are about six point five million kids who can't walk down the street and go to a grocery store because their communities do not have grocery stores. Part of lets move is to eliminate that. Because we can't tell people to buy clean foods if there's no where to buy it, right?" said Obama.

Those in the audience say Michelle Obama inspired them to live a good lifestyle.

The Mexican government says first lady Margarita Zavala meets with Michelle Obama during a visit to the White House.

The President's Office says the two women discuss obesity, diabetes, addictions and the situation of undocumented Mexican minors in the United States. It says they stressed the links between their countries in working on those problems.

Zavala was in Washington on Thursday for a conference on falling demand for drugs. She returned home on Thursday.

President Barack Obama may be struggling to keep support nationwide, but in the predominantly Republican state of South Carolina, he's not doing too badly.

Nearly 48 percent of adults who lived in the Palmetto State approve of Obama's performance as president, a Winthrop University poll found.

That result was a small improvement over the 45 percent of South Carolinians who voted for Obama in November 2008, when Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain carried the state with 54 percent of the tally.

As president, Obama has higher name recognition than Graham or DeMint, which partly contributes to his better showing, Huffmon said.

Nationwide, 51 percent of Americans support of Obama's performance as president and 43 percent disapprove, the Gallup daily tracking poll showed Wednesday.

First lady Michele Obama is much more popular than her husband in South Carolina, where she has family trees.

At a meeting with state governors, Obama spoke about new efforts to get better education for college and for jobs.

Obama plans to make college and career-ready standards in the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Last year the president challenged states to enlarge standards and assessments that could give confidence children to work hard to graduate from high school prepared for college and the workplace.

The president calls for a redesigned Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The act aims to better teacher preparation to get better classroom instruction. The goal is to assist states improve education to successfully prepare students for college and the workplace.

“America’s prosperity has always rested on how well we educate our children - but never more so than today,” said President Barack Obama.

The United States Senate designated to advance a $15 billion jobs-creation measures in which five Republicans joined the majority Democrats giving a major victory to the Obama Administration.

Grateful to the Republicans and Democrats who voted for the bill, the US President Barack Obama in a fast statement on Monday said this is one of many efforts they require to tackle America's economic challenges.

"We will continue to work with Congress on additional job creation measures," he said.

"Jobs remain our top priority, and I look forward to work with members from both parties to get legislation signed, and the American people back to work," Obama said.

President Barack Obama, who is spending billions of dollars to overhaul the U.S. public education system, says there's one sure thing parents can do to assist their kids learn, regardless of financial means: prohibit them from watching television on school nights.

His own daughters, Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, Obama told Essence magazine: "The girls don't watch TV during the week. Period."

The first thing they’ll do after school is homework. If they haven't completed by dinnertime, around 6:30 p.m., they pick up where they left off after the meal. And after that, they can study until they hit the sack. Malia's bedtime is 9 p.m.; Sasha's lights go out a half hour earlier, he said.

Obama and first lady Michelle Obama also began reading to their daughters when they were babies, and encouraged them to appreciate education.

On Tuesday, President Obama will proclaim plans to break ground on two new nuclear reactors at a Southern Company plant in Burke, Georgia - the first new U.S. nuclear reactors since the incident at Three Mile Island in 1979.

The president will make the statement at the IBEW Local Headquarters in Lanham, Md., where union members can learn application that can be used in the construction of nuclear power plants.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the Department of Enegery to issue loan guarantees "for projects that avoid, decrease, or sequester air pollutants or greenhouse gas emissions and employ new or significantly-improved technologies," the White House official said, adding that it has been one of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu’s top priorities to allot $18.5 billion under that authority.

The President has planned tripling loan guarantees for nuclear-power plant construction to more than $54 billion in his FY2011 budget.

Last month the president announces the formation of a bipartisan Blue Ribbon Commission to review policies for nuclear waste, led by former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., and the National Security Adviser to President George H.W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft.