you are on with nelson smith. caller: good morning. mr.th, i think you hit on two things that i see as really important. one is accountability and there is none in the public schools. and then importantly, setting the expectations. i mean the schools -- my son graduated this year, my daughter graduated two years ago from public schools. there is more rules, more rules and more people to enforce the rules. these are high school students, lined painted on the floor, stay on the line, keep their mouth shut. eat in the cafeteria, nobody allowed to talk. that kind of a thing. how are you preparing anybody for anything except prison with those kind of rules? the expectations are set so low, what do you expect? people will perform to where you expect them to. on the accountability side, that is the big problem. that is the difference between charter schools, i think. school boards are not there to represent the parents. school boards are there to protect the administration nowadays, unfortunately. host: mr. smith? guest: school boards are typical

nelson smith, president and ceo of the national alliance for public charter schools, and luis has a status report. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. >> people don't want to think as roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he set aside almost 240 million acres of wild land. as people are talking about environmentalism, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day that i absorbed darwin and understood biology and understood bird migratory patterns and mating habits of different animals. he actually did something. >> sunday, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. you can download the puck past. >> now, courtesy of iran's state-run press tv, ayatollah khamenei on results of last friday's election in iran. these are his first public remarks since the election delivered during friday prayers. this is about an hour 15 minutes. >> i recommend the respective brothers and sisters who have attended the prayers here. i recommend them all to refrain from evil. what i am going to raise in th

nelson smith and another guest. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> people do not want to think about roosevelt conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside many acres of wild america, so now, as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand. he is the -- he was the only politician of his day who had absorbed darwin and understood the migratory patterns of birds and the mating patterns of deer and elk and antelope and actually did something. >> sunday on "q&a," the first of two hours with douglas brinkley. you can also listen on a xm satellite radio, or download the podcast -- you can listen on xm satellite radio. >> now, the ayatollah khamenei on the election. this is about one hour 15 minutes. >> [speaking foreign language] in this, i recommended all, the brothers and sisters attended, i recommend them all to piety and to refrain from evil. what i am going to raise in this sermon is the issue of the election. this is the topic of the day. i want

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